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Conclusion Of course the story does not end with Bill Clinton. Who knows what chapters still have to be written in the annals of American Presidential history by the sons, and indeed the daughters, of Ulster? Throughout the history of these twelve American presidents, we see again and again that indomitable and inspiring Ulster spirit shining through. In the martial genius and commanding leadership of Andrew Jackson and Ulysses Grant are echoes of the great Ulster war-lords who helped give Britain victor·y in the Second World War, Montgomery and AZanbrooke. The strong faith in God which carried Woodrow Wilson through the trials of the Great War and gave him the vision of a lasting peace, was the same faith that has been the bedrock of Ulster's survival on so many occasions of danger. Right or wrong, Richard Nixon, in the final tortuous months of his presidency, epitomised the Ulster battle-cry 'No Surrender!' Perhaps more than any other characteristic in any individual president, there is a basic homeliness and simplicity and decency common to all these men that mark them as descendants of the Ulster people. There is in them, as in the American nation itself, a love of liberty and freedom and trust in God which was planted in that great land by those early Scotch-Irish settlers in the eighteenth century. The goal that each man strived for, that'American dream' come true, was a dream first dreamt of in Ulster. It was the people who left these shores that carried with them the burning desire for individual freedom, the opportunity to better oneself and the right to worship God as they chose. That dream carried hundreds of thousands across the vast American continent, and moved these twelve men to answer America's highest call. Back to American Presidency Menu
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