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In reply to the discussion: Just curious: Worst president ever [View all]Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)1. Hoover not on the list? Come on. Just mention his name to someone who remembers him. I dare you.
2. Buchanan. The one before Lincoln. Had he done something other than sit on his ass a few hundred thousand soldiers who lost their lives in that war might have lived.
3. Woodrow Wilson. Ah, Woodrow Wilson. Where to begin?
World War I was a catastrophe of epic proportions. First he got us involved in the first place. Had that not happened, the belligerents might have been forced to come to an understanding of how to live with each other, and WWII might never have been. The French and British were exhausted before we got in, and would have been forced to deal with Germany far more mercifully than they wound up had they not had the fresh forces coming in from the US to back them up.
Then he screwed up the peace talks, and made WWII almost inevitable. Amazingly, that catastrophe wound up being many times worse.
Then there were his interventions. Lots and lots of em. He attacked Mexico a few times, as I recall, trying to make it conform to his image of the correct country, or something. Sent US soldiers into the nascent USSR to fight there. And of course WWI itself.
No list of worst presidents is complete without these Three Stooges.