Looking for info on past presidents

[SiriusLiberal]

My wife is having a debate at work with a woman who thinks Carter was the worst president of the last 100 years. She needs help finding information to help her compile lists of accomplishments by Carter and Clinton, as well as lists of the not-so-good things by Reagan, Bush I and II.

Thanks!

[stevedeshazer]

1. There's this one thing called Watergate

But aside from that, there's this one guy who was President, Herbert Hoover.

Good guy, but not a good president.

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Hoover is still remembered primarily as a heartless depression president despite his philanthropic and government work during the First World War as head of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, then as director general of the postwar American Relief Administration, and finally as President Woodrow Wilson's U.S. food administrator and director general of relief for Europe. These activities had made him such a popular figure by 1920 that both parties courted him as a presidential nominee. He refused to run but did serve as secretary of commerce in the administrations of Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, transforming his department into one of the most important and well-publicized agencies of the federal government. As commerce secretary Hoover helped develop some advanced economic theories on business cycles and industrial standardization, and he supervised regulation of the nascent radio and aviation industries.

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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_042700_hooverherber.htm

The rest of the story is how he curled up and knuckled under to big business interests, and allowed the US and arguably the entire world economy to tank.

My family, and millions of others, were left to deal with the consequences with no help or plan.

Any such comparison of 20th century presidents needs to include Hoover.

[EVDebs]

2. And don't forget the Bush relatives involved in the 1932 FDR coup attempt

The Plot to Overthrow FDR (Smedley D. Butler)

www.ihffilm.com/r547.html

If not for USMC Gen Butler, 2X CMOH, we would have had martial law a lot earlier than now !

[stevedeshazer]

3. Smedley Butler...great example n/t