Best and worst president and why.
Best: Calvin Coolidge because he managed to spearhead the country into success by doing jack shit.
Worst: Franklin Pierce because he managed to spearhead the country into war by doing jack shit.
>Calvin Coolidge because he managed to spearhead the country into success by doing jack shit
Judging presidents by how the economy performed under their administration pre-FDR is really dumb. The general working of the economy was seen as outside the realm of presidential responsibility until The New Deal (Woodrow Wilson & WW1 as the rare exception).
Of course Presidents before FDR made decisions that affected the economy, but most were tied by the extraordinarily small size of the Federal Government and a pre-Keyensian understanding of Fiscal Orthadoxy.
Best: Eisenhower, Nixon
Worst: Truman (absolute shithead of a person, fucked with the military too much) , LBJ (Welfare state and Vietnam) Bush (Iraq) or Obama (worsened race relations, fucked up foreign policy, little economy growth)
>>2262769
This is a really weird context in which to use a Hanazuki reaction image
> Truman absolute shithead of a person
because of the atomic bombs & his association with the KKK or something else?
>>2263044
his feud with macarthur mainly