eyez0nme
02-21-2006, 04:23 AM
What is the worst--the most egregious error made by the President during the history of the United States?
Bush is #1 on my list.
Here are CNN's:
1. President James Buchanan, for failing to avert the Civil War (according to a survey of presidential historians organized by the University of Louisville's McConnell Center)
2. Andrew Johnson's decision, just after the Civil War, to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery ("We continue to pay" for Johnson's errors, wrote Michael Les Benedict, an Ohio State University history professor emeritus).
3. Lyndon Johnson allowing the Vietnam War to intensify
4: Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
5: Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
6: James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain.
7: Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
8: John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.
10. Bill Clinton
Bush is #1 on my list.
Here are CNN's:
1. President James Buchanan, for failing to avert the Civil War (according to a survey of presidential historians organized by the University of Louisville's McConnell Center)
2. Andrew Johnson's decision, just after the Civil War, to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery ("We continue to pay" for Johnson's errors, wrote Michael Les Benedict, an Ohio State University history professor emeritus).
3. Lyndon Johnson allowing the Vietnam War to intensify
4: Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
5: Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
6: James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain.
7: Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
8: John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.
10. Bill Clinton