Favorite and least favorite thing about all 20th century presidents + Bush

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McKinley
Favourite: He gave us Teddy
Least favourite: Led the way for the highest tariff in American history, McKinley Tariff. Also, allowed big business to monopolise and drive up consumer prices.

T. Roosevelt
Favourite: Led the way to make an effort to save our environment by creating national parks and reserves. Anti-trust legislation.
Least Favourte: Wanted to compete with European nations and set up American colonies.

Taft
Favourite: White House staff had to build a special bathtub because he got stuck in the old one and had to be pried out.
Least Favourite: Hated the job so much that he received only eight electoral votes and couldn't be happier.

Wilson
Favourite: Child Labour laws
Least favourite: initially opposed women's suffrage and his apparent racism.

Harding
Favourite: The Roaring Twenties began. Probably not of his doing.
Least favourite: Just an awful president.

Coolidge
Favourite: The most lade back president ever.
Least Favourite: The most lade back president ever.

Hoover
Favourite: His quote when he became the Republican nominee in 1928, "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land". Then the market crashed after he got elected.
Least favourite: Didn't know how to solve The Depression.

FDR
Favourite: Did everything he could to win WWII.
Least favourite: He tried to turn the country into a socialist state and thus prolonged the depression.

Truman
Favourite: desegregated the armed services and began to focus on Civil Rights.
Least favourite: The Korean War, though he was able to preserve South Korea.

Eisenhower
Favourite: Forced integration in public schools.
Least Favourite: His Sec of State

JFK
Favourite: Cuban Missle Crisis
Least favourite: Almost provoked nuclear war with the Bay of Pigs.

LBJ
Favourite: Civil Rights
Least favourite: Didn't know how to handle Vietnam (though no one ever figured it out).

Nixon
Favourite: Domestic policy
Least favourite: Watergate. Why break into the DNC? Did he not know he was going to win big?

Ford
Favourite: Generally tried to do what he believed was right. Good foreign policy.
Least favourite: Pardoned Nixon. Guaranteed he would lose in 1976.

Carter
Favourite: Overall nice guy. Better as an ex-president.
Least favourite: Foreign policy. 1980 boycott, hyperinflation, long gas lines and I voted for him in 1976.

Reagan
Favourite: The Great Communicator. Was able to gain support from both sides of the aisle.
Least Favourite: Saying ketchup was a vegetable.

Bush 41
Favourite: Good foreign policy.
Least favourite: "Read my lips!" speech. We didn't follow up to Baghdad and remove Saddam and thus here we are today. We actually had the majority Shiite support then.

Clinton
Favourite: Had a good domestic policy and rode the dotcom boom of the 90's.
Least favourite: Didn't give enough attention to the growing terrorist threat of the early 90's.

Bush 43 (so far)
Favourite: Doesn't pander to the U.N.
Least favourite: Didn't give enough respect to the terrorist threat until it was too late. He had a lot of clues; WTC 93, two embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, USS Cole 2000 as well as other warning signs. So here we are.

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McKinley
Least favourite: Led the way for the highest tariff in American history, McKinley Tariff. Also, allowed big business to monopolise and drive up consumer prices.

I'm glad to see a Republican complain about these kinds of things.

I generally support anti-trust legislation and small tariffs on imported goods, if any tariff at all, in order to promote competition and keep consumer prices low. The only reason I support any tariff at all is to encourage consumers to buy American and support American workers. Big business will make their profits. Competition keeps prices low.