Worst President Ever?

[lsanderson]

Was the lousiest James Buchanan, who, confronted with Southern secession in1860, dithered to a degree that, as his most recent biographer has said, probably amounted to disloyalty -- and who handed to his successor, Abraham Lincoln, a nation already torn asunder? Was it Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, who actively sided with former Confederates and undermined Reconstruction? What about the amiably incompetent Warren G. Harding, whose administration was fabulously corrupt? Or, though he has his defenders, Herbert Hoover, who tried some reforms but remained imprisoned in his own outmoded individualist ethic and collapsed under the weight of the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Depression's onset? The younger historians always put in a word for Richard M. Nixon, the only American president forced to resign from office.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

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[aelburr.livejournal.com]

I'd have to put in a vote for Andrew Jackson who's administration set the bar for corruption so high it lasted over a hundred years before being topped. That's all aside from the brawling, consensual murder (dueling) and slavery he was a direct party to.

My first voter ID listed my party as Whig.