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With so many distinguished Irish-Americans to choose from, it seems singularly odd to praise Andrew Mellon’s economic policies; “liquidate the farmers” is not entirely consonant with this administration’s usual messaging. publicpool.kinja.com/subject-presid… 
2. Still not over how weird this is. Clinton also praised Mellon, in his 1997 proclamation—but for excelling in business and finance, not for his economic policies:
3. Not only does praising Mellon’s "economic policies that sparked the tremendous prosperity of the 1920s” elide 1929, but—um—he was forced form office by an impeachment inquiry into his mixing of public and private business, which, yeah.
