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Critique of worst?
LBJ, JFK, Clinton off the lists of worst... Your list looks suspiciously partisan, and prone to influence from the personality of the President, and less about policy and action. Reagan seemed like the grandfather we all wished we had, but that doesn?t make him a great prez, at another extreme in the present era Clinton got his dick sucked in the White House?so what? JFK?s mistress sang to him on his b-day in front of the nation while she was high..but we folks viewed him as a family man. Post-watergate Editors don?t protect politicians from stories critiquing their moral character, like a throw back to the mud-slinging days of the 18th century.
JFK for the cool handling of the Cuban missile crisis, that short period was the closest the world has been to outright nuclear conflict. JFK opened the door to dealing with soviets in a back-channel fashion to avert any chances of future nuclear war. ?man on moon challenge,? that most thought was unattainable?I?d hardly call that nothing, and although he also presided over the bay of pigs fiasco he was cool under pressure and manipulated a favorable agreement with Kruschev during the C.M.C.
LBJ for dealing with the civil rights era, under the pressure of a faltering policy of communist containment in the Vietnam conflict. Vietnam hurts him bad?more to discuss but not really necessary given the positive performance on social issues that had been largely ignored. Also space exploration dream of kennedy was completed under Johnson. Many call him a great one. Ridiculous to add him to the worst b/c of great society?heck why not add FDR?
Clinton was pretty average...no great policy shifts, but didn't spend us into a huge deficit either...partially b/c of the repub-controlled congress. There was no great turmoil, other than dealing with regional conflicts.
So by your own criteria, I question those judgments. My list in a sec.
My methodology should become clear in a sec.
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