Best US president of the last 100 years?

I would have went with President Trump if his name had been a choice but I decided on FDR due to the way that he wisely responded to the USA application of the Worgl, Austria local money experiment and boosted the USA economy tremendously. I was really tempted to answer President Reagan too!


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Were you then living and voting?

 

Yes to both of your questions.

 

Why are you so high on Ford?

I was then selling real estate and nothing done by Ford impressed me.

 

Because I felt he helped to heal the wounds that were created by the Nixon presidency and watergate, where no one could trust the government. I think he had a very calming effect on the nation; he wasn't an elected president nor vice president so he wasn't (at least in my eyes) tainted with owing political favors. The only negative I heard from some people was the pardon of Nixon and I believe he did that so Nixon didn't completely lose face after all his years of public service. He was a president I felt I could trust.

 

Oh is that what Ford was tripping over all the time.....the truth?

Hey guess what I did today after I got back from work? I went down a flight of stairs without tripping. That literally makes me more competent than at least one President that I know of.

 

You can also throw in lying about bombing Cambodia & Laos and threatening India when it tried to stop the genocide in East Pakistan, thus helping it continue.

 

You can have some guns (DoD) and you can have some butter (all the rest), but you can't go nuts with both at the same time.

 

Probably a reference to US support for the murder of at least 500,000 people in 1965-66 directed by the military. Not Johnson's doing, but the US encouraged and assisted the Indonesian military.

 

How do we know you didn't trip and are just lying?

 

As is the case in any room full of people, some do not agree.

 

Cause I am not Trump.

 

No, the Clinton years were very prosperous although arguably they laid the foundations for the crash.

 

The sub prime market started in 1994 under Bill Clinton, what more do you need?

 

It was the right thing to do, like pardoning the draft dodgers. It was to heal the nation.

 

Bombing Cambodia and Laos saved 100,000s of allied lives. Stopping India interfering in East Pakistan was an attempt to halt the bloodshed and secure peace between these 2 Cold War nations.

 

Once again the Cold War and keeping 'our man in the presidency'. Find me a US president who didn't back a dictator?

 

Whether or not that is true, lying to Congress about it doesn't put you in the 'good President' category. Neither does attempting to sabotage peace talks while you are running for the Presidency.

Sorry, that is just complete bollocks. Nixon & Kissinger were backing up a US ally that was committing genocide against a Russian ally that was trying to prevent it. The killing ended when the Indian military invaded.

 

Your name seems a very poor description of your posting. You asked a question, I gave you an answer. No value judgements, just the facts of which you were (and it seems still are) unaware.

Oh, and for the record the US wasn't 'keeping our man in the Presidency'. Quite the opposite. The guy you backed went on to murder about a third of the population of East Timor, also with US assistance. There is a bit of a difference between just backing a dictator and helping people commit mass murder, but hey, Cold War & all that. As long as it wasn't your people in the mass graves, right?

Maybe less attitude and more basic reading is in order. I won't hold my breath.

 

How did Vietnam affect Universal Health Care?

 

Ike. He built the Interstates,the single greatest change to any nation's economy/infrastructure ever done.

 

He lied to congress because it was still a secret op at the time, you note congress actually had little or no problem with it? Nixon did not sabotage the peace talks, he had private talks with the SV president where he set out his position.

Sorry but you're wrong, the killings started because India funded a guerrilla army to try to overthrow Pakistani rule and give them an excuse to intervene. Frankly if FDR can back Stalin....?

 

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

I "liked" your post, even though I don't agree with the choice of JFK -- for the reason that we never did get to realize what he could actually accomplish during his presidency, obviously.

In eight years, Ronald Reagan brought good jobs, low interest rates, and overall prosperity back to the country. His presidency marked an complete end to 'Stagflation' and its aftermath, huge energy price increases, and double-digit interest rates. His foreign policies set up the liberation of Eastern Europe, soaring business trade abroad, and just after he was gone from office about a year, the total collapse of the Soviet Union....

What we so desperately need TODAY is a leader with the attributes of both JFK, and, Ronald Reagan. But, even a casual glance at both the Republican and Democrat Parties reveals that NO such leader is to be found among them ANYWHERE....

Instead, this is the kind of 'rising star' we see in today's political cosmos --

 

Alas, she is the inevitable future of the Dem Party because of all of their countless useless idiots.