Beyond the Grave wrote:
JohnTheTinyCowboy wrote:
Worst president might have been Lyndon Johnson or Nixon. They didn't do too much to help out with the Vietnam War, and Nixon was a paranoid nutcase.
There might have been worse, but I don't know if Millard Fillmore ever did anything particularly evil, so I'll go with Nixon.
Well LBJ started the Vietnam Conflict, He didn't want to, but he felt he had no other choice. Nixon on the other hand, his global policies were excellent, but his domestic behavior was embarassing. Breaking into the Watergate Hotel was not a good idea.
Nixon's dishonesty, sneakiness, and ineptitude did not stop with his domestic behavior, unfortunately. He eventually worked to stop the war, but he promised to end it sooner than he did in order to get elected. He launched a SECRET war in Cambodia, which was in a much worse situation than Vietnam to begin with. I guess he decided that elongating a stupid, pointless war was good enough for the public to know, but stopping the terrible Khmer rouge in Cambodia wasn't. Granted, a lot of that was Johnson's fault, but he still deceived the American people in an unprecedented manner. Finally, it's no secret that his "accomplishments" with China under Chairman Mao were shams. A ping-pong team and a couple of pandas? I'm fooled, let's reelect him! The only reason these meaningless symbols even existed was that Mao, like Nixon, did not wish for there to be a second Cold War. But did anyone actually change after that? No. Nixon was just an all around bad guy. People already knew this long before his presidency, when he made an idiot out of himself running against JFK for president and for governor of California, but because of his unfulfilled campaign promises, people suddenly forgot that because all they wanted was to end the war. Nixon was an opportunist who sprung at the chance to run when everything was going as badly as it possibly could, and the people were the easiest to win over.