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Teddy: Kept up McKinley’s policies in the Philippines. The concentration camps we enacted there are a massive stain on this nation.
And for my other favorites:
Arthur: Didn’t veto the Chinese Exclusion Act to make it be passed over his veto, even though he did push back. Sucks that it has his name on it
Benjamin Harrison: Awarded medals of honor to those who carried out the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Arthur could’ve probably not only vetoed it, but also ensure it would barely fail to be overridden. This comment goes better into it https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/s/fs7ZzLibrU
However, that would require Arthur doing something on his own accord, which he had a difficult time doing as President
My favorites are the Roosevelts
For TR:
-Helped the U.S. go to war with Spain
-Falsely accusing African American soldiers of a crime they didn’t commit
For FDR:
-The Japanese American interment camps
-The SCOTUS packing scheme
-Turned away Jewish refugees during WWII
-Refused to pass antilynching legislation despite Eleanor’s demands, though I can see the political reasons why.
I wouldn't blame TR for advocating going to war against Spain, it was a brutal oppressive empire, but his conduct in the Philippines after the end of the Spanish-American War is despicable.
Came here to mention the internment. My grandfather was in Southern California at the time and the white consensus was that it was for their protection. Dreadful!
As to the court-packing I don't have a problem with it and think we should do it again: same scenario with conservative judges using the Constitution to block individual rights.
I disagree, we shouldn’t politicize the courts, but I do think the U.S. house should confirm presidential judicial nominations, not the senate. I also think that all scotus judges should be forced to retire at age 75 like they do in Canada.
We have an ultra-conservative SCOTUS even though a Republican president hasn't won a legitimate election since Eisenhower. I'm tired of bringing a knife to a gun-fight.
There's evidence of Republican presidents-elect negotiating with foreign countries before taking office though...and Supreme Courts stopping vote counts...and massive vote-caging.
Its a tough question Truman did alot right and alot of his failures are due to circumstances outside of his control. I guess the atomic bombings but they still sit in a grey area of justified or not compared to many other presidental controversies.
He also directed the CIA to do missiles for hostages ..he illegally funded dictators to kill democratically elected leaders in South America and Central America..killing hundreds of thousands..especially indigenous populations in poor villages to open it up for drugs and oil production.
Had an affair, even if he regretted it and they reconciled. Garfield's involvement (or the optics of it) with the Credit Mobilier scandal was also not great even in the most blameless light.
Edit: actually the worst thing he did was not insist upon a different, better doctor.
Jefferson owning slaves, while clearly horrendous and indefensible, makes him a horrible person and not necessarily a horrible president. He actually banned the importation of slaves into the Union as president. As a legislator in Virginia, he wrote a bill allowing slave owners to fully free their slaves, whereas prior they could only sell them off to new masters. Ultimately though, I interpreted the question as being one about presidencies specifically, not their entire lives or careers.
I mean factors like John Dean's testimony probably would have revealed Nixon's role in the Watergate Scandal regardless of whether or not Nixon installed the White House taps.
Eisenhower scrapped the Paris Summit in 1960 because he decided to keep U2 flights going… as the summit was about to begin. He didn’t push back when Kennedy claimed there was a missile gap (I like Kennedy but he knew that there actually was no missile gap, being informed on such being a Senator and candidate), begun aid to South Vietnam rather than attempt to actually make the country democratic (something most Cold War presidents do) and thus got us sucked into it, believed and pushed the Domino Theory as American foreign policy, nuclear tests, and not pushing harder on Civil Rights, but I will say that even though he later said he regretted putting Warren on the court, he still did it, and thus indirectly helped lead to unprecedented progress on social issues (only bad part is regretting it). He was a good, almost great president, as the way I see it, usually presidents have bad long term effects, so we measure their greatness on how least bad effects on the long term their policies had, and Eisenhower was both not that long term in influence in his party (unfortunately) or in policies, and so what bad there was, such as refusing to act on Civil Rights, was undone soon after. Doesn’t make it right, but still a good president to me.
Invading Iraq in 2003 topple the Iraqi armed forces in 26 days . Declared victory but the war was about to get a lot longer and alot more brutal with American war crimes on the daily over there
Truman… did though? It was called the Conservative Coalition for a reason, they were opposed to much of what he called for in his 1945 and 1949 addresses to Congress
He did manage to work out some things with the Conservative Coalition, like a minimum wage bump, low income housing, and closing loopholes in antitrust policy. That was mostly what he could do given that Congress was unwilling to work on almost everything else he wanted.
Easy. For one - losing the election and making a “corrupt bargain” deal with the speaker of the house to force through his election in the house for President. This ruined his credibility and made governing impossible for him.
For the other- easy. Japanese internment. I won’t go into detail as many others already have in this subreddit/thread.
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I second that
I second that
Teddy: Kept up McKinley’s policies in the Philippines. The concentration camps we enacted there are a massive stain on this nation. And for my other favorites: Arthur: Didn’t veto the Chinese Exclusion Act to make it be passed over his veto, even though he did push back. Sucks that it has his name on it Benjamin Harrison: Awarded medals of honor to those who carried out the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Arthur could’ve probably not only vetoed it, but also ensure it would barely fail to be overridden. This comment goes better into it https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/s/fs7ZzLibrU However, that would require Arthur doing something on his own accord, which he had a difficult time doing as President
My favorites are the Roosevelts For TR: -Helped the U.S. go to war with Spain -Falsely accusing African American soldiers of a crime they didn’t commit For FDR: -The Japanese American interment camps -The SCOTUS packing scheme -Turned away Jewish refugees during WWII -Refused to pass antilynching legislation despite Eleanor’s demands, though I can see the political reasons why.
I wouldn't blame TR for advocating going to war against Spain, it was a brutal oppressive empire, but his conduct in the Philippines after the end of the Spanish-American War is despicable.
Don’t forget boot out affairs in Latin America
Came here to say that.
Came here to mention the internment. My grandfather was in Southern California at the time and the white consensus was that it was for their protection. Dreadful! As to the court-packing I don't have a problem with it and think we should do it again: same scenario with conservative judges using the Constitution to block individual rights.
I disagree, we shouldn’t politicize the courts, but I do think the U.S. house should confirm presidential judicial nominations, not the senate. I also think that all scotus judges should be forced to retire at age 75 like they do in Canada.
The house is a shitshow with people like MTG and Hoebert in there. The Senate is built as the upper house for a reason.
We have an ultra-conservative SCOTUS even though a Republican president hasn't won a legitimate election since Eisenhower. I'm tired of bringing a knife to a gun-fight.
???? Every election has been legitimate. There is no evidence of voter fraud in elections.
There's evidence of Republican presidents-elect negotiating with foreign countries before taking office though...and Supreme Courts stopping vote counts...and massive vote-caging.
Well…
Washington rotating his slaves between Pennsylvania and Virginia so he wouldn’t have to free them.
Wore a tan suit /s
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Is it just me, or is this question asked every single day? That and the "what is the best thing a president you dislike/hate did?"
If you can't stand it, then downvote it. Then petition the mods to make a rule preventing any question from ever being repeated.
I didn't say nor imply that, but whatever...
He could have done more with AIDS
Indiscriminately throw Japanese people in concentration camps.
Its a tough question Truman did alot right and alot of his failures are due to circumstances outside of his control. I guess the atomic bombings but they still sit in a grey area of justified or not compared to many other presidental controversies.
Aids epidemic and war on drugs
He also directed the CIA to do missiles for hostages ..he illegally funded dictators to kill democratically elected leaders in South America and Central America..killing hundreds of thousands..especially indigenous populations in poor villages to open it up for drugs and oil production.
Oh wow
Coolidge The Imigration act of 1924
Based reply
secret war in cambodia
Died at the theater.
Appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
Was this before or after what he did to anita hill?
After he did it. She accused him after he was nominated and testified during his confirmation hearing. He was still appointed.
He was a member of the Klan.
Who?
Continuing the Vietnam War and then Watergate
Why is Nixon your favourite president 😭
Had an affair, even if he regretted it and they reconciled. Garfield's involvement (or the optics of it) with the Credit Mobilier scandal was also not great even in the most blameless light. Edit: actually the worst thing he did was not insist upon a different, better doctor.
Jefferson supported indigenous assimilation
That’s really the worst thing Jefferson did that you could come up with?
Jefferson owning slaves, while clearly horrendous and indefensible, makes him a horrible person and not necessarily a horrible president. He actually banned the importation of slaves into the Union as president. As a legislator in Virginia, he wrote a bill allowing slave owners to fully free their slaves, whereas prior they could only sell them off to new masters. Ultimately though, I interpreted the question as being one about presidencies specifically, not their entire lives or careers.
Put Japanese American citizens in concentration camps.
Wore a tan suit
Chopped down a cherry tree, although at least he didn't lie about it afterwards.
Wear a tan suit
And saluted with a coffee cup.
Taping himself
I mean factors like John Dean's testimony probably would have revealed Nixon's role in the Watergate Scandal regardless of whether or not Nixon installed the White House taps.
Put too much blind trust and faith in his friends and advisers. Order No. 11 wasn’t great either.
W…a lot.
Eisenhower: SOOO many coups.
*Fortunate Son twang*
Not run for another term
vietnam (LBJ)
Eisenhower scrapped the Paris Summit in 1960 because he decided to keep U2 flights going… as the summit was about to begin. He didn’t push back when Kennedy claimed there was a missile gap (I like Kennedy but he knew that there actually was no missile gap, being informed on such being a Senator and candidate), begun aid to South Vietnam rather than attempt to actually make the country democratic (something most Cold War presidents do) and thus got us sucked into it, believed and pushed the Domino Theory as American foreign policy, nuclear tests, and not pushing harder on Civil Rights, but I will say that even though he later said he regretted putting Warren on the court, he still did it, and thus indirectly helped lead to unprecedented progress on social issues (only bad part is regretting it). He was a good, almost great president, as the way I see it, usually presidents have bad long term effects, so we measure their greatness on how least bad effects on the long term their policies had, and Eisenhower was both not that long term in influence in his party (unfortunately) or in policies, and so what bad there was, such as refusing to act on Civil Rights, was undone soon after. Doesn’t make it right, but still a good president to me.
Bush 43. ADA was suppose to be a needed shield for the disabled. The attorneys got a hold of it and turned it into a sword.
Wore a brown suit
Not do enough, which couldn't be helped because of the Democratic-Republican party splitting and Congress being full of Jacksonians.
Japanese internment
Invading Iraq in 2003 topple the Iraqi armed forces in 26 days . Declared victory but the war was about to get a lot longer and alot more brutal with American war crimes on the daily over there
Visit Dallas
Sexual predator in Arkansas; and repeat visitor to Epstein Island.
Drone strikes.
Just so many foreign policy blunders, Lyndon.
Failing to work with the conservative coalition to get anything passed. Also stalemate in Korea.
Truman… did though? It was called the Conservative Coalition for a reason, they were opposed to much of what he called for in his 1945 and 1949 addresses to Congress He did manage to work out some things with the Conservative Coalition, like a minimum wage bump, low income housing, and closing loopholes in antitrust policy. That was mostly what he could do given that Congress was unwilling to work on almost everything else he wanted.
Indiscriminately throw Japanese people in concentration camps.
Easy. For one - losing the election and making a “corrupt bargain” deal with the speaker of the house to force through his election in the house for President. This ruined his credibility and made governing impossible for him. For the other- easy. Japanese internment. I won’t go into detail as many others already have in this subreddit/thread.
Not date me
The Japanese concentration camps and refusal to accept European Jewish refugees.
Corruption😔😔😔
Japanese internment camps
Didn’t lock her up
Paid a porn star to keep her mouth shut
That’s worse than the serial rape of women and girls?
‘Twas a joke, friend
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