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

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McKinley:

Favorite: Gave us ol' TR
Least Favorite: US became colonial power

T. Roosevelt:

Favorite: Trust buster and progressive
Least Favorite: Hawk

Taft:

Favorite: none
Least Favorite: Overturned many of TR's reforms

Wilson:

Favorite: Ended child labor
Least Favorite: Alien and Sedition acts

Harding:

Favorite: none
Least Favorite: Appointed crooked cronies

Coolidge:

Favorite: A good, honest man
Least Favorite: Passed on due benefits for WWI vets

Hoover:

Favorite: A good, honest man
Least favorite: Letting Gen. MacArthur attack the bonus army and burn down the "Hoovervilles"

FDR:

Favorite: "Alphabet Soup" programs
Least Favorite: Internment of Japanese-Americans

Truman:

Favorite: Ended race separation in US Army
Least Favorite: Didn't run again in 1952

Eisenhower:

Favorite: Stood up to Orval Faubus
Least Favorite: Preferred golf to leadership

Kennedy:

Favorite: Cuban Missile Crisis
Least Favorite: Bay of Pigs

Johnson:

Favorite: Medicare
Least Favorite: Escalation in Vietnam

Nixon:

Favorite: EPA
Least Favorite: Christmas bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, audio tapes revealing anti-Semitism

Ford:

Favorite: A honest, decent man (needed after Nixon)
Least Favorite: Nixon pardon

Carter:

Favorite: Human rights, Camp David accords
Least Favorite: Handling of economy

Reagan:

Favorite: Helping to end Cold War
Least Favorite: Increase in federal deficit; rich got richer, poor got poorer

G. H. W. Bush:

Favorite: Experience in foreign policy
Least Favorite: Handling of economy

Clinton:

Favorite: peace, prosperity
Least favorite: Personal problems that helped lead to Al Gore's 2000 defeat

G. W. Bush:

Favorite: none
Least favorite: too numerous to list