Who is the greatest president ever? I think it is probably F.D.R, the man who led America out of the depression, and through most of the war. He was the man who made America the greatest nation on Earth.
1) He was not Catholic. He was a Presbyterian. 2) He divorced once. 3) "In 1969, Reagan, as Governor, signed the Family Law Act which was the first no fault divorce legislation in the United States."
4) "In the late 1970s he wrote a response in his LA Herald-Examiner column to the organization backing the California Briggs Initiative, stating that he opposed the proposed ban on gay public school teachers.[18] Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, wrote an article in the New York Times where she recalled her father talking about Rock Hudson's homosexuality in an accepting and tolerant manner."
t's obvious, isn't it? John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or John F. Kennedy. He guided our country through the space age, alas he sadly wasn't able to see the moon landing. Honestly, he guided our country through a difficult time, the Cold War. He kept America calm, and kept America and Russia from going to an all-out war. Democrat or Republican, it does not matter with him, for he was the single greatest president this country has so far seen.
-Spirit
No. He led you guys into the Bay of Pigs, increased involvement in Vietnam, and had his term cut short; hence judgement is incomplete. Furthermore, many other Presidents have done their part in preventing an all out nuclear war, and Reagan and the SALT treaties immediately spring to mind.
At least he took responsibility for it, which is more than I can say about most modern presidents.
Accepting responsibility does little to avert the disaster and embarassment it was. It's not like if Bush admits his mistake, he would score political brownie points and redeem himself.
So did Lincoln. It's not like they were impeached or something.
You missed the point. Having a shorter term means a few less years to mess up, and in Kennedy's case, an assassination that brings forth waves of sympathy.
You know why he did that? If not keep reading. The SOVIETS were bring ICBMs into Cuba. The only way to make the Russians stop doing something is to stick it to them. Show that you are not going to back down to their actions. JFK was thereby preventing a means to a nuclear war. If you don't realize that Russia wouldn't have just Nuked America, they would have nuked all of NATO, which the U.S. was pretty much the gorgon's head in the whole thing. Also if Bay of Pigs hadn't happened we could literaly be living in the world of Fallout.
And you know why the Russians brought ICBMs into Cuba? Partially because Kennedy stuck ICBMs in Turkey, right at their borders in 1962, so close they were that Khruschev could see them when he visited Bulgaria. So no, were they victims? No.
but it doesn't make up for the fact that he ordered an illegal invasion.
When hasn't that come with the job? It seems like a rite of passage. Johnson wasn't exactly open about Vietnam. A more transparent leadership during that time would've been nice: "The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the President the exclusive right to use military force without consulting the Senate, was based on a false pretext, as Johnson later admitted.[97]"
increased involvement in Vietnam
And he planned on reducing it:
"As President, Lyndon Johnson immediately reversed his predecessor's order to withdraw 1,000 military personnel by the end of 1963 with his own NSAM No. 273 on November 26, 1963.[94][95][96] Johnson expanded the numbers and roles of the American military following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident" "By the end of 1964, there were approximately 23,000 military personnel in South Vietnam." "By 1968, over 550,000 American soldiers were in Vietnam"
If you don't screw up.
Of course, early on there were many problems and failures anyway, but it ultimately led to success.
