| I saw, although I didn't buy, that issue of U.S. News & World Report, published by Mortimer Zuckerman, if that makes any difference. So don't pile in on the puzzlemaker, criticize his source. Of course, G.W. Bush has to rate in the bottom ten; he probably did more positive damage than all the others combined, whose failings were chiefly ones of omission (Hoover, Buchanan) or obliviousness ("My enemies I can handle," said Warren G. Harding, "it's my damned friends!" — much the same have been said by his fellow Ohiaoan, Ulysses S. Grant). And just as with Clinton/Bush/Obama, much of the blame that's fallen on Hoover for a crash that fell six months into his administration should be placed on his two predecessors (as we don't place all the blame for 9/11 on G.W.Bush's unpreparedness).
As for the brief Whig presidencies of Tippecanoe and Zachary Taylor, U.S. News had some explanation. It depends how one defines "worst president"; you can hardly call them roaring successes. |
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