Thank goodness you didn't put Reagan on your list. But Ford, not a bad president, gave a pardon to a man that should have been at least tried in a court of law as an example of not even the president is above the law and GHWB didn't do much of anything except pardon the Iran-Contra seven, and let's not forget the Keating Five and the sav…
Thank goodness you didn't put Reagan on your list. But Ford, not a bad president, gave a pardon to a man that should have been at least tried in a court of law as an example of not even the president is above the law and GHWB didn't do much of anything except pardon the Iran-Contra seven, and let's not forget the Keating Five and the savings and loan failure. LBJ changed America via civil rights legislation and Obama gave health care and dignity to millions ...I'd have put Nixon (created the EPA and other environmental and work place protections) on the list before any Bush made my list of greats - but of course Nixon would not have made my list either. Carter was an interesting choice. Was it because he put missles in Europe which effectively began the dismantling of the USSR?
I was not aware of the missiles in Europe by President Carter. I put President Carter on that list for:
> pardoning the draft dodgers to put Viêt Nam behind us;
> facilitating the Camp David agreements;
> promoting environmentalism aggressively;
> placing human rights firmly in the center of foreign policy; and, most of all,
> remaining steadfast in bringing home those fifty-two Americans home alive.
President Carter could have bombed the crap out of Iran and looked strong; he had the humility to step back and do the right thing at the expense of his public standing. When I was an intern out of college on Capitol Hill in 1982 (for the Republicans; fish out of water), the staff director of the non-standing Committee on Indian Affairs asked me which President had done the most for Native Americans.
I said President Lincoln. NOPE. 🤔
I said President Roosevelt (either edition). NOPE. 😳
I said -- for sure -- President Johnson. NOPE. 😯
It was President Nixon. 😱
That was a curve-ball for my callow, if not yet calloussed, brain.
Thank goodness you didn't put Reagan on your list. But Ford, not a bad president, gave a pardon to a man that should have been at least tried in a court of law as an example of not even the president is above the law and GHWB didn't do much of anything except pardon the Iran-Contra seven, and let's not forget the Keating Five and the savings and loan failure. LBJ changed America via civil rights legislation and Obama gave health care and dignity to millions ...I'd have put Nixon (created the EPA and other environmental and work place protections) on the list before any Bush made my list of greats - but of course Nixon would not have made my list either. Carter was an interesting choice. Was it because he put missles in Europe which effectively began the dismantling of the USSR?
I was not aware of the missiles in Europe by President Carter. I put President Carter on that list for:
> pardoning the draft dodgers to put Viêt Nam behind us;
> facilitating the Camp David agreements;
> promoting environmentalism aggressively;
> placing human rights firmly in the center of foreign policy; and, most of all,
> remaining steadfast in bringing home those fifty-two Americans home alive.
President Carter could have bombed the crap out of Iran and looked strong; he had the humility to step back and do the right thing at the expense of his public standing. When I was an intern out of college on Capitol Hill in 1982 (for the Republicans; fish out of water), the staff director of the non-standing Committee on Indian Affairs asked me which President had done the most for Native Americans.
I said President Lincoln. NOPE. 🤔
I said President Roosevelt (either edition). NOPE. 😳
I said -- for sure -- President Johnson. NOPE. 😯
It was President Nixon. 😱
That was a curve-ball for my callow, if not yet calloussed, brain.