2006-12-21 16:15:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Gerald Ford. Because for two years he presided over a public that didn't cast a single vote for him.
2006-12-21 16:27:39 · answer #1 · answered by ;-) 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"Obviously the people who respond "Licoln" dont know the true lincoln.
I'll leave them with that, so they can open up their textbooks and reasearch it. I was suprised when I learned what Lincoln thought about liberating the slaves, which is totally different from what many think. Which is why hes no longer my favorite."
Well obviously, you didn't pay attention or read your history book that day. Lincoln abhorred slavery in all its forms. However, The Civil War did not begin as a war over slavery, it was a war over State's Rights and Secession. It became a war over slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation on September 27, 1862(went into effect Jan. 1, 1863).
Mr. Lincoln was asked once about his feelings on slavery and the war, and he responded..."If I could end the war today, preserving the Union and not free a single slave, I would do it. If I could end the war, preserve the Union, and free all the slaves, I would do that. If I could end it today, preserve the Union, and free only some of the slaves, I would do that, too."
His job as president was to preserve the Union, slavery or not. He did that with so much weighing on his mind about if he was making the right decisions, as well as enduring the loss of at least one child, his wife becoming a manic depressive, and fighting to keep his job in the election of 1864.
His mind was so amazing for both law, eloquence of speeches, and politics that he could sue you for no reason, convince you he was right, and then pardon you and you would think he was your best friend.
I wish we could have seen what would have happened if his guard had only stayed at his post that night.
2006-12-22 15:14:41 · answer #2 · answered by themainevent0415 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln was as close to a saint as we will ever have in this country. To all the Lincoln haters, you have to keep things in a historical perspective, and not prescribe our values on a man who lived 150 years ago. If Lincoln would have demanded an immediate end to slavery followed by total equality he either never would have been elected president or the North would have lost the Civil War and thus slavery would have continued.
2006-12-21 19:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by mk_matson 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the historians have been unanimous that George Washington, our first President, was our greatest What many don't realize is that he was offered the opportunity to be a King, and he refused.
I believe the historians would consider Abraham Lincoln our #2. He was probably the greatest Legal mind ever to occupy the Oval Office. And a very decent and moral man, despite his misgivings over slavery. I believe he put his opposition to slavery beautifully, when many in our young nation had doubts. Mr Lincoln said-- in effect-- that he never thought slavery was anything good since no person ever chose it for himself.
I believe there has been considerable debate over who would be #3, but the last I read, the relatively unanimous choise would be our own Ronald Reagan.
2006-12-21 16:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by John1212 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would have to agree with George Washington as he had to start out with nothing so to speak. He inherited a fledgling nation and had to establish the office of the Presidency as the head of all of the United States. Had he failed in his task, we would not be the nation that we are today.
2006-12-21 16:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by John W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln. He lead the country through a massive civil war and began the recontruction. He was a great communicator and persuader. Unlike today's presidents he was his own man. He had a brilliant legal mind and a good soul.
2006-12-21 16:18:39 · answer #6 · answered by fancyname 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
FDR because he gave the country hope and worked very quickly and efficiently. He got the country out of the worst Depression ever, along with accomplishing many other tasks.
2006-12-22 02:59:16 · answer #7 · answered by miss elinor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson. His vision for an agrarian society would have been a utopia compared to how things worked out with a powerful central bank. How much did YOU pay in interest last month?
Lincoln got more Americans killed than any president in history. He makes me sick.
2006-12-21 16:49:30 · answer #8 · answered by James B 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
John F. Kennedy.
Peace Corp.
Handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Space Program
Civil Rights
Extremely intelligent, reality-based human being, ie, complete opposite of GWB. [tick, tock]
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2006-12-21 19:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by S. B. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
iil. Harry S. Truman. will say him because he stopped the world War by dropping the bombs which saved thousand of lives on both side and he didn't mind standing up to and for what he thought was right
2006-12-22 06:49:13 · answer #10 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋