Richard Harding
Why are these presidents counted as the worst in US history?
1) Warren G. Harding
2) Ulysses S. Grant
3) Jimmy Carter
4) Calvin Coolidge
5) Millard Fillmore
6) Franklin Pierce
7) Zachary Taylor
Optional (I know why these guys are bad, I just want to know your opinion):
Richard Nixon
9) James Buchanan
10) Andrew Johnson
I found these worst presidents at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_United_States_Presidents
P.S. Yes I know Bush and Hoover should be on here, but according to national poll, they are not as low as these guys. Please just answer the question.
Harding never showed the leadership or vision required to be an effective president, and his administration is mainly remembered for its corruption, which was revealed after Harding’s death. A few important posts in his cabinet were given to untrustworthy men to pay political debts.
Grant was a puzzling figure in American public life. He was a failure in his early ventures into both business and military life. In four years of commanding Union forces he climbed to the highest rank in the U.S. Army and directed the strategy that successfully concluded the Civil War in 1865. His two terms as president of the United States are considered by many historians to be the most corrupt in the country’s history. Yet from accounts of Grant’s contemporaries, as well as from his own memoirs, there emerges a personality of strong character and considerable dignity.
From the beginning his presidency was marked by caution, conservatism, frustrations, and disappointments. Many reforms he promised were never carried out—some because they were abandoned by Carter, others because of congressional hostility. During the 1976 campaign, for example, Carter vowed to reform the tax system, which he called “a disgrace”; yet as president he gave only token support to tax reform. He also promised to reduce drastically the number of agencies in the federal bureaucracy—which he called “the worst, most confused, bloated, overlapping, and wasteful” in history—and to slash the number of federal employees. Instead of eliminating departments, however, he added the departments of energy and education to the Cabinet, and the number of government employees continued to increase during his presidency. Last, The Islamic revolution in Iran turned out messy and not in our intrests. Personal family scandals too, espically his brother plagued his administration.
Coolidge is remembered more for his solid character than his political achievements. His homespun personality captivated the nation, and to this day he remains a symbol of his era. One of his well-known quotes, “The chief business of America is business,” reflected his strong belief that the government should not interfere in the economy. Coolidge opposed federal government intervention or relief for workers and was equally against any measures that would interfere with business. Announcing in his 1924 inaugural address that the nation appeared to be “entering an era of prosperity,” he argued for lowering taxes and pointed out that “employment is plentiful, the rate of pay is high, and wage earners are in a state of contentment seldom before seen.” His years in office were a relatively affluent time for Americans and were not marked by much change or tumult. However, not long after Coolidge completed his second term in 1929 the Great Depression began in the United States, and soon the world plunged into economic collapse.
Fillmore succeeded Zachary Taylor at a critical moment in United States history. The Mexican War (1846-1848) had renewed the conflict between the Northern and Southern states over slavery, since it had added new territories to the United States. The debate over whether these territories should be admitted as free or slave states precipitated a crisis that threatened civil war. Much to the relief of Northern and Southern politicians, Fillmore pursued a moderate and conciliatory policy. He signed into law the Compromise of 1850, which admitted one territory as a free state and allowed slave owners to settle in the others. This compromise did not solve the basic problem of slavery but did preserve peace for nearly eleven years. During that time the North gained the industrial power that enabled it to defeat the South when civil war eventually came.
Pierce sided with the South on the slavery issue. His position on this issue caused him, in the words of a friend, “to immolate himself on the altar of slavery.” Yet Pierce was devoted to the federal Union of the states, his chief aim being to uphold the Constitution of the United States as a sacred and therefore unchangeable document and to avoid civil war at all costs. Although he was a weak, but well-meaning and honest, man with a social nature, few presidents have led so tragic a personal life or have left office so publicly hated and discredited. However, it is uncertain that even a president of superior ability could have dealt effectively with the great problems of the pre-Civil War era.
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