Who is considered to have been the worst president of the United States?

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Buchanan was the worst. Others considered on the bottom are Harding, Hoover, Taylor, and Harrison. I question how Harrison got on the list because he was only president one month and he was bed ridden the entire time.

Then he died. Taylor died in office, too.

Something I find interesting is that Harding was one of the most popular presidents, but historians rank him among the worst. Truman, on the other hand, was very unpopular. S approval rating was below Bush's lowest rating.

Storians have been much kinder to him than they were to Harding.

Depends on who you ask. Conservatives think Obama is the worst president EVAR. Otherwise, it is between George W bush, and a few mostly forgotten presidents.

George W. Bush is right at the top of the list. Jimmy Carter didn't do so hot in office.

Richard Nixon was a crook. Lyndon Johnson was unethical and a dirt bag. I'm sure there are other bad ones but they just don't spring to mind right now.

I think much of historical evaluation is based on what the person accomplished. Thus, Hoover is not considered a good President because he didn't end the Great Depression tho he had three years to do so. However, he didn't come up with the policies that made the Depression inevitable: Harding and Coolidge had.

Harding is also considered a bad President because he had a scandal. Also considered a bad President was Grant: brilliant general, incompetent politician. He was honest, but everyone around him used familiarity to take advantage of him and he let them.

Everyone around him was corrupt. Carter is seen as also one of the worst, tho he inherited Richard M. Nixon's policies AND the inflation from the oil embargo.As one of his campaign staff said, "Should have spent some of our campaign money on extra helicopters" for their failed attempt to rescue the hostages.

THAT is what he's really remembered for, and 'twasn't his fault. Reagan is well-remembered because he made very clear what he would do: the hostages were released when he was inaugurated because he'd made clear he was going full military on them and with Iraq next door, they couldn't win that one. Yeah, we have problems with Iran now exactly because we didn't deal with them then.

So figure out what the President did well, subtract scandals, and you have an evaluation. Thus, Clinton balances the budge but gets the "Happy Ending" from an intern: end result, elder statesman for some, adulterer for others. George W.

Bush keeps terrorists out of U.S. After first time, but spends us into oblivion and sounds Texan instead of Washingtonian while doing it: End result, unheard from since leaving office ('cept for that autobiography thingie that disappeared quickly).

Hands down - James Buchanan. And he wasn't in my lifetime! Runner-up is one from my lifetime - George W.Bush..

It depends on who you ask and how you define worst. Many people will reply based on their political ideology and it will be based on the presidents who have had terms during their lifetime. I would say Woodrow Wilson.

He was possibly the most virulently racist presidents we have had and was as close to a fascist one as we have had.

I would rate F.D. Roosevelt one of the worst presidents of the U.S. He took a blind eye towards the Holocaust, allowed american companies to trade with Nazi Germany (Standart Oil, IBM , General Motors, Ford) even after the declaration of war, and sent American soldiers to fight an enemy - Germany - whose war economy depended, in great part, on American companies. Also he allowed the USSR to take control over eastern europe at the end of the war and subject those peoples to an abject tyrany. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm htm.

It is a cheap shot fired at most of our Presidents. They figure most people are too ignorant to know the difference - or the history.

If you were elected President of the United States....

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.