Who is the worst president the USA has ever had and Why?

Question

George W Bush does not count.

Answer 1

James Buchanan (1857-1861)
"A Pennsylvania-born Democrat, deeply devout in his faith and the only bachelor elected to the presidency, Buchanan rejected slavery as an indefensible evil but, like the majority of his party, refused to challenge the constitutionally established order. Even before he became president, he supported the various compromises that made it possible for slavery to spread into the western territories acquired by the Lousiana Purchase and the Mexican War. (Particularly hurtful to the cause of restraining slavery's spread was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, for example, allowed settlers to determine the status of slavery in their proposed state constitutions.) In his inaugural address, the 15th president tacitly encouraged the Supreme Court's forthcoming Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress had no power to keep slavery out of the territories. More damaging to his name, though, was his weak acquiescence before the secessionist tide—an unwillingness to challenge those states that declared their intention to withdraw from the Union after Lincoln's election. Sitting on his hands as the situation spiraled out of control, Buchanan believed that the Constitution gave him no power to act against would-be seceders. To his dying day, he felt that history would treat him favorably for having performed his constitutional duty. He was wrong."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/worstpresidents/index.htm

According to the Poll on US News!
• George W. Bush
60% of voters

• Jimmy Carter
24% of voters

• Bill Clinton
23% of voters

• Richard Nixon
22% of voters

• Abraham Lincoln
15% of voters

• Ronald Reagan
14% of voters

• Warren Harding
13% of voters

• George H. W. Bush
12% of voters

• Lyndon B. Johnson
12% of voters

• Herbert Hoover
10% of voters

• James Buchanan
9% of voters

• Ulysses S. Grant
7% of voters

• Andrew Johnson
6% of voters

• John Kennedy
4% of voters

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
4% of voters

• Gerald Ford
3% of voters

• Franklin Pierce
2% of voters

• Woodrow Wilson
2% of voters

• Andrew Jackson
2% of voters

• John Tyler
2% of voters

• Millard Fillmore
2% of voters

• Calvin Coolidge
1% of voters

• Harry S. Truman
1% of voters

• Dwight Eisenhower
1% of voters

• William Henry Harrison
1% of voters

• Zachary Taylor
1% of voters

• Chester Arthur
1% of voters

• William Howard Taft
1% of voters

• Martin Van Buren
1% of voters

• George Washington
1% of voters

• James Polk
1% of voters

Answer 2

My pick is Warren G. Harding. There is no redemptive value in his administration which was corrupt to the bone and whose policies combined with Coolidge's worsened the American side of the worldwide depression. Grant is a close second but his Secretary of State Hamilton Fish was a saving factor to his corrupt administration.

Answer 3

I according to history Ulysses Grant because of how the economy crashed when he was in office. However we may have a new candidate in George Bush Jr. Only time will tell.

http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/Ampres/essays/grant/biography/4?PHPSESSID=a1c48414cf03b2e39247614a5ddc5339

Answer 4

Why wouldn't G.W count? Is that cause he is a given? He was my first pick.

There are alot to choose from from good ole Abe Lincoln(not the President that is in the history books, was ll for slavery all his career, then changed his view to get votes, etc) to Nixon. I guess I am going to have to go after Nixon, just because his entire presidency is riddled with conspiracy and scandals. Although good ole Eisenhower and his creation of Cointelpro, which is a pretty shady organization to say the least.

Answer 5

I don't think there is a "worst" because all of them made a mistake or two... and the ones who messed up really bad still did good things. I think they all served their purpose.

Answer 6

The lecher from Arkansas. He profaned the office of the President of the United States.

Answer 7

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
Though politically gifted, he will forever be associated with the Watergate scandal and his resignation.

Answer 8

Jimmy Carter,He never seemed strong enough to be a president to me.

Answer 9

Ronald Reagan......he used to fall asleep during cabinet meetings

Answer 10

BUSH