From the book Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

In response to running mate Joe Biden blurting out another classic gaffe during the campaign trail.

President Johnson was far from an upstanding human being. That being said, this quote is so, so, so timeless in its relevance.

Many of the business moguls who owned the factories would stoke up racial tensions to prevent unionization, encouraging white workers to ban black workers from their unions.

The same went for politicians who were bought off by the financial interests, who would fear monger their constituents into voting for them by claiming that people of color would take their jobs and invade their neighborhoods.

Johnson was many things, and regarding the wealthy elites’ use of racial bigotry to prop up their economic interests, he was an absolute visionary.

When the topic of the Vietnam War is brought up, I feel like 90% of the conversation revolves around LBJ; while Johnson certainly deserves to be impugned for escalating the war, Nixon frankly was just as careless regarding the loss of life that the war brought. In Cambodia alone, his bombings led to at least 150,000 civilians dying.

The South Vietnamese government was never going to survive without US troops stationed there. LBJ knew this, the top brass knew this, and most importantly, Nixon and Kissinger knew this.

The South Vietnamese government and military were corrupt, incompetent, and nowhere near as committed to defending South Vietnam as the North was to reunifying the country. Nixon’s bombing of Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam did absolutely nothing to help provide a peaceful resolution to the war, only serving to buy time for Nixon’s electoral prospects.

Just to be clear, Nixon knew that the South would fall. He deliberately prolonged the suffering and death of American soldiers and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians for the purpose of saving himself from an electoral hit. He didn’t want to be known as the man who backed down from “fighting communism”. He killed hundreds of thousands because of his selfish desire to appear peachy clean for the 1972 election.

All of that being said, Nixon must never be rehabilitated. Truman was absolutely right about the man, as Nixon was willing to end hundreds of thousands of lives to forward his own career. Rather than withdrawing from Vietnam upon taking office, Nixon chose to perpetuate a massive bombing campaign that led to untold suffering and death.

Nixon was a sociopathic monster, and his Vietnam policy is just one of many examples of that.

Despite political differences and tensions throughout the course of their lengthy careers, Nixon and Humphrey enjoyed a remarkably warm and respectful relationship over the years.

It’s worth noting that at the time Nixon was not just a disgraced demonized figure, but known in Washington to be under great psychological distress, engulfed in feelings of depression and despair over his reputation.

So it was pretty generous of Humphrey, in his final days, to extend this gift of good will.

Harrison's voice is recorded but oddly no surviving recording of Cleveland exists . Bryan has audio recordings and every candidate since 1908 has their voice recorded too.

This might be a rather silly question, but there are rules against this sort of thing, the Armed Forces work extremely hard to never be seen as partisan, so then, why was a General allowed to run for office? The answer could be that Ike was drafted into it, and so didn't violate any of the rules in place.

I’m trying to make my presidential timeline and put what party they were in (while President) and i genuinely don’t know what to put Tyler as.

That dude kept changing his mind on everything.

Here's how this works: every post, I'll add a new president and ask where you would rank them. Your answer should be "between ____ and ____" just so that I can make sure it's in the exact right spot. I'll give you all around a day to decide on your answer before I post the next post with the longer list. If you have any questions about that, ask me in the comments, and I'll clarify in the next post.

Honestly, I was surprised how unanimously Lincoln was put in the number one spot in comparison to Washington! Not that I can argue of course; emancipation and the preservation of the union are indeed a pretty big deal. Now, where should we rank Andrew Johnson on this list?

Current Rankings:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. John Adams
5. James Monroe
6. James K. Polk
7. John Quincy Adams
8. James Madison
9. Zachary Taylor
10. Martin Van Buren
11. Andrew Jackson
12. John Tyler
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan

Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Romney, McCain and more

It was a back to back debate and they called everyone to the stage

almost the day the cuban missle crisis started too

Following the fall of Napoleon in 1815, his elder brother Joseph Bonaparte (the former King of Naples and Spain) fled to the United States. He lived as a wealthy exile for nearly two decades, primarily at his grand Point Breeze estate in Bordentown, New Jersey

During his American exile, Joseph maintained warm relations with prominent political figures. In 1832, before returning to Europe, Joseph met with President Andrew Jackson.

You would think they agree on a lot since they were both on the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and were from the northern Midwest. But Humphrey only reluctantly endorsed McGovern in 1972 for party unity. The Nixon campaign even used one of Humphrey’s quotes about McGovern in an attack ad.

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