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Michael asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 years ago

Top 10 worst presidents that were elected before 1981?

I need historical perspective. If you include presidents elected after 1981, I, at least, will hide the entire answer.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Andrew Johnson and LBJ were both idiots

  • 8 years ago

    Richard Nixon (would have been impeached; tried to subvert Constitution)

    Warren Harding (corrupt but too stupid to see it)

    U. S. Grant (great general; horrible president)

    James Buchanan (made Civil War inevitable)

    Franklin Pierce (a junior Buchanan)

    Andrew Johnson (divisive, shrill)

    Lyndon Johnson (very ambivalent about this; magnificent on social issues, horrible on international ones)

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    There's a line here because the above seven were bad for obvious, demonstrable reasons. The ones below seem to me non-entities:

    Benjamin Harrison

    Rutherford B. Hayes

    William McKinley

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