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| One of the most fun questions I ask, I love to ask people this, who your favorite question, or who your favorite president was? | |
| And the internet is replete with more than one historian and academicians and academics and presidential scholars opining and weighing in as to who their president is, best and worst. | |
| And when you ask civilians, they normally will give you the usual answers. | |
| You know, FDR, Blinken, whatever. | |
| It might be more contemporary JFK or Obama or Reagan or whatever. | |
| And you can tell immediately, you can tell immediately whether somebody knows what they're talking about. | |
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The Criteria for Best
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| Whether they really understand the essence of this. | |
| Whether they understand the gravamen, the actual trick to this question. | |
| Because the first question you should be asking, of course, is what do you mean best? | |
| What do you mean worst? | |
| Worst how? | |
| What are the criteria for what is and is not a good or a bad president? | |
| You mean the most famous? | |
| You mean the one who gets the most airtime? | |
| The one who is referenced in media more? | |
| Somebody who's famous? | |
| Somebody who's loved? | |
| Somebody who's part of the social scrum? | |
| See, that's where it gets interesting. | |
| Let me explain to you what that means, why that's critical, and give you a couple of hints as to what you should be looking at before you answer the question. | |
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| Okay, best president, worst president. | |
| What do you mean? | |
| My criteria for best is, did you not do anything wrong? | |
| Did you keep us out of war? | |
| Did you maintain the economy? | |
| Did you not exhibit or participate in anything that is considered egregious? | |
| Did you do anything along those lines? | |
| And that's critical. | |
| That's critical. | |
| That's the first issue. | |
| Did you not do anything that was catastrophic? | |
| Did you just leave well enough alone? | |
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Great Accidental Presidents
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| Did you just not break anything? | |
| You know, at first, don't kill the patient. | |
| Do no harm. | |
| Okay. | |
| We can get into then, did you do scandals? | |
| Were you involved in scandals? | |
| Did you do scandals? | |
| Were they of your choosing? | |
| Are you an accidental president? | |
| How about some great accidental presidents? | |
| Harry Truman? | |
| Teddy Roosevelt? | |
| John Tyler? | |
| You know, John Tyler was terrific. | |
| McKinley? | |
| Garfield was great. | |
| Grover Cleveland had his moment. | |
| Yeah! | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| John Quincy Adams loved him. | |
| The worst? | |
| What do you mean the worst? | |
| The worst? | |
| Franklin Pierce, a drunk. | |
| Buchanan, Andrew Johnson. | |
| Oh my God. | |
| I mean, it just depends. | |
| And then you get into this notion of, well, what about Lincoln? | |
| Was Lincoln that great? | |
| Well, Steven Spielberg loved him. | |
| Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. | |
| Lincoln is not what people think in terms, historically, of what he was as to slavery and the like. | |
| His goal was the notion of maintaining the union. | |
| Now, there's another group of people who have suggested, why is it anybody's fault to maintain the union? | |
| It is within the rules to secede, right or wrong or what have you. | |
| Nobody ever speaks about it from that point of view. | |
| Well, isn't secession bad? | |
| Not everybody thought so. | |
| I must admit, I think a contiguous, intact country is a lot better. | |
| But understand, again, the reference. | |
| Who were these people? | |
| What was the, and I'm going to say it, what was the zeitgeist? | |
| Who were these people? | |
| And forget personalities. | |
| People always love to go into, well, who was weird? | |
| Who was weird? | |
| Did you know that Grover Cleveland on the weekends was like the only person in the White House? | |
| It was reported that if you were one of the few people who had a phone, and the joke goes, if you call the White House, and whoever answered, if you said, President Cleveland, please, you would most probably hear, speaking! | |
| It was a different world then. | |
| It was this... | |
| James Garfield didn't want to be nominated. | |
| He said, no, no, no. | |
| Harding? | |
| Was Harding poisoned? | |
| I mean, all these great stories. | |
| Warren Gamaliel Harding? | |
| Teapot Dome? | |
| The greatest writer? | |
| Who was the greatest writer? | |
| Believe it or not, U.S. Grant. | |
| Many, many people believe he was. | |
| Washington? | |
| Very odd. | |
| Didn't know how to... | |
| Mule deal with people. | |
| He had things to put his hand on, and he didn't really... | |
| I think I told you this. | |
| Jefferson never made a speech. | |
| Adams was a far different type, far saltier. | |
| I mean, before you get into the personality types of these folks, then you get into Miller Fillmore and Rutherford B. Hayes, and then you get into... | |
| And I mentioned Cleveland. | |
| What was great about Cleveland was the only... | |
| The only two-term, the only two-term, non-consecutive two-termers ever. | |
| And a real stand-up guy, a real stand-up guy who lost, I think his re-election, his first re-election, I think it was an electoral vote. | |
| He says, well, those are the rules. | |
| That's the way it goes. | |
| We knew what we were getting into. | |
| A far different cry. | |
| And then there are people that, and this is what I want you to listen to. | |
| Because you can hear me ramble about these little moments of, you know, historical, you know, that's cute. | |
| It's fascinating stuff. | |
| It is truly fascinating. | |
| But the one thing I want you to understand, no matter what you think about any president, you've got to wait. | |
| Remember, history would be a wonderful thing if only it were true. | |
| When it comes to presidents, you have to wait a significant period of time before anybody really, really recognizes, really settles down into who they were and are. | |
| That's the most important. | |
| We don't know. | |
| Truman left with one of the worst, one of the worst ratings maybe ever in how he's loved. | |
| History is a very weird thing. | |
| It's a strange, it's... | |
| And you know, say what you want about Ken Burns, God bless him for at least making it seem remotely interesting, but there is no truth to this. | |
| Do you think Kennedy, a thousand days, do you think Kennedy was as great as he was, or is the tragedy of his death this young, handsome couple that Camelot in the 60s and every, I mean, that day killed everybody. | |
| It was the harbinger of the 60s and Vietnam and the terrible five-year period from 63 to 68 with JFK, RFK, MLK, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X. It just went on. | |
| It was awful. | |
| That day. | |
| I was five years old. | |
| I remember my mother was crying. | |
| I didn't understand. | |
| I said, what's going on here? | |
| And there's a tendency to be, to wax hagiographic, to romanticize about people, to not necessarily be as critical. | |
| But wait till you see what history does regarding Trump and Clinton and Obama and Biden. | |
| You have to wait because we're too close. | |
| The notion of history presupposes a significant lapse of time before there's any kind of reflection. | |
| You have to have that. | |
| Without that, it's not history. | |
| It was the other day. | |
| There has to be this notion of comparison. | |
| And who gets to write it? | |
| Is ChatGPT going to write history? | |
| Who is going to write history? | |
| What will be the prevailing thought? | |
| Regarding the personalities and the efficacy and the lunacy of this. | |
| I mean, let me just warn you. | |
| Whatever you think is going to be the case in the future, do not necessarily believe so. | |
| Because, again, history has to be read in terms of the context. | |
| But if I have to pick the worst, Franklin Pierce. | |
| Franklin Pierce, hands down. | |
| But my favorite, The favorite president, the person who really was the guy who did the right thing, who actually, you know, despite, and the worst is what FDR did. | |
| Oh my God! | |
| I can go through. | |
| From the St. Louis to basically wanting to pack the cord and he was In many respects, despised by people. | |
| But to go through a depression and World War II, and while being physically, I don't know if I admire him or the fact that he didn't just quit. | |
| So he is there. | |
| Lincoln for the pros, but U.S. Grant, his writing is even better. | |
| His writing is even better. | |
| And Washington is heraldic. | |
| It's almost like you can't speak of him normally. | |
| So, I haven't been very good as far as who my favorite was. | |
| Because, like I told you, I like Grover Cleaver. | |
| I despised Wilson. | |
| Wilson was awful. | |
| Read what Wilson writes. | |
| Dear God. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| Income tax and post-League of Nations. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| Plus, he had a stroke. | |
| His wife, Edith, ran the show. | |
| Favorite is tough. | |
| Favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite is tough. | |
| Because there's favorite because of what they did, and then there's kind of the personal thing. | |
| I'm kind of, believe it or not, I'm kind of like a Cleveland fan. | |
| Plus, he was born in In Bloomfield, and excuse me, Caldwell, New Jersey, and his home is right there on Bloomfield Avenue. | |
| We drive by it all the time. | |
| I haven't been much help regarding that, but Franklin Pierce, not good. | |
| All right, my friends, have a great and a glorious day. | |
| Thank you so much for watching. | |
| Please put your thoughts and comments down. | |
| Who were your favorites? | |
| Who were your, whom did you despise or loathe or detest? | |
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