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

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McKinley
Favourite: The political blunder that gave us Teddy
Least Favourite: Put it like this; when Big Business said "jump" he didn't just say "how high", he fetched a stepladder as well.

T. Roosevelt
Favourite: Trust busting
Least Favourite: The whole colonialist thing

Taft
Favourite: Losing in such an amusing way
Least Favourite: Being a reactionary prick on the Supreme Court

Wilson
Favourite: Ending child labor (appointing Bryan Secretary of State was good as well)
Least Favourite: Treatment of Pacifists during WWI. Oh and the racism thing.

Harding
Favourite: Er... er... er... pardoning Debs was the only decent thing he did so...
Least Favourite: Where do I start? Worst (and most corrupt) President ever

Coolidge
Favourite: His personality was pretty cool (bad pun intended)
Least Favourite: Caused the Great Depression

Hoover
Favourite: He was a nice guy when all's done and said.
Least Favourite: 1928 Campaign

FDR
Favourite: The New Deal
Least Favourite: Treatment of Japanese Americans

Truman
Favourite: Doing all he could to stop Taft-Hartley+ Taking on the Dixiecrats and generally sticking up for the little guy
Least Favourite: The silly (and often pretty bitter) row with John L Lewis.

Eisenhower
Favourite: Little Rock
Least Favourite: His choice of Secretary of State

JFK
Favourite: Preventing WW3
Least Favourite: Bay of Pigs

LBJ
Favourite: Amazing domestic policy that helped millions of people and brought democracy to the Deep South.
Least Favourite: His general ignorance of foreign policy, which allowed him to be duped by hawkish advisors.

Nixon
Favourite: Watergate, because it got rid of him (oh all right... some of his domestic stuff wasn't half bad)
Least Favourite: Disgusting foreign policy

Ford
Favourite: Saying he'll burn in hell because...
Least Favourite: ...he pardoned Nixon

Carter
Favourite: He's a nice guy when all's said and done
Least Favourite: Failing to realise that Congress is not like the Georgia Legislature of the early '70's...

Reagan
Favourite: "Allowing" O'Neill to get the better of him in the last 6 years of his Presidency
Least Favourite: Gutting regional development

Bush I
Favourite: Er... losing to Bubba the way he did
Least Favourite: Abandoning the Iraqi Shia to their fate... and all for electoral reasons.

Clinton
Favourite: Nothing really bad happend
Least Favourite: Didn't get a whole lot done either

Bush II
Favourite: Getting rid of the Taliban
Least Favourite: Beings so damned crass