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Worst Presidents: Conclusion

Posted February 16, 2007
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Maybe what we learn from the least of our presidents—apart from the fact that even the worst often have remarkably redeeming features—is that it requires a rare combination of qualities to be among the best. Strength of character, principles, and political skills are necessary, to be sure, but so are the flexibility and judgment that allow them to gauge the needs of a time. If the worst help us understand the great, they also remind us of how merely good leaders often fail.

Reader Comments

ronnie reagan worst person ever

The subject speaks for itself

Love life of vietnamese crook

As we never can predict the real fact that acted invisibly mind to mind and time to time by the power of mysterious force of evil or angels,but as far we can assume that some people did wrong and some did right things based on their strategy they earned from their life time experiences.There are some comments regarding some president who cannot show their honor and respect for their country. Their bad deeds what affected a nation and brought psychological trauma and economic depletion merely not a mistake , I would rather comment it as deliberate act.An adult person who holds some responsible position and the people of a nation who select a president need wit to judge the incidence that they awaiting ,must verify the factors that cause many detrimental effect and ultimate effect to reach the goal.

LBJ might act as a good person and he has no mind to flirt with me as i can guess by looking at him,but where he got so good mind to run a country being a president and where is his mind to carry suck a big load of great responsibility as a president.

A person have war in mind, it means person have a violent mind led him to use that for a big war when he got chance to do that.

How president Kennedy was killed while he was a co-worker with JFK.LBJ intention and wish is different than JFK and involved with JFK to know JFK plans to avoid war.Still he gone against JFK plan when JFK died.

I want to give my opinion about Richard Nixon, he does not look like a person who can accomplish anything by means of any healthy approach.He is sexually deprived,he get woman who does not love him really and he was in real crisis.that cause him become depressed and mental slowness.he has in his mind``IN AM NOT A CROOK``.that made him crook.His mind have no peace, only sadness shadowed and engulfed his mind.I wonder when he could smile?.

I think his position is best in immigration department,where his attitude and impression and decision will act better to distract people and make them stop dreaming to go to nice country.In that case terrorist will not be eager to go to USA .Terrorist will see that their need for that activity is already performing.

I think LBJ and RN both are best man for vientnmese woman.Violent retarded woman can fit them best

Worst Presidents

The worst president in American history is between three different people, only one of which is from the last century, and the other two served consecutively. Third worst is the war hero Ulysses E. Grant. Although he himself wouldn't be worthy of such a bad rap, his term was simply overshadowed by the constant corruption of his cabinet. Two happens to be Herbert Hoover. The Depression of the 20s and 30s were technically started by his Republican predecessors, he didn't do much to help the cause. In fact he turned his back on the American people when he refused to regulate business, pay WWI veterens, and raised taxes on imported items. The worst president ever was Andrew Johnson. Even if through war Abraham Lincoln took 5 steps forward, then Andrew Johnson took 8 steps backward with how he handled Reconstruction and mending the wounds created by the Civil War. He was too leniant in reaccepting the Confederate states and then gave them the satisfaction of the Black Codes, making freed slaves second class citizens. The fact that he allowed former Confederates to keep office in the south only created more problems that wouldn't be solved until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He was impeached for a reason this is what makes him the worst president in American history.

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