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You cannot forget president Lyndon B. Johnson that man was the inspiration for Netflix's introduction sound. Without that iconic slam from Lyndon, Netflix wouldn't even be the same in fact we might not even have a Netflix without him. EDIT: Anyone want proof? I can post IT
How about a President that shouldn't be on the list. In the bit on John Kennedy you give him credit for policies that happened before and after his short term, policies that were implemented by President Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. Also, both Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson spied on political rivals that were much worse than the Watergate scandal under Richard Nixon. Finally, the Cuban missile crisis results weren't the win that the video portrayed. I highly recommend "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" by Robert A. Caro, a five-volume biography of which four have been published. I am awaiting the fifth volume.
The Regan administration is when they started taking all of our manufacturing jobs away to overseas. Nothing good came from his time in office. Iran Contra scandal. Our own Military selling weapons to our en Oliver North trials Young ones don't know. Better ask Genx
@mikepeckham1833 what games? Truth from those of us alive to witness and remember it? 😂😂 Gotta see what happened so you don't fall for it in the future
He was shot in the chest actually, his thick folded up speech in his coat pocket saved him from being killed (the bullet did go through the speech, but it lost most of its velocity).
As someone who loves American history, hearing how Lincoln led our country in the midst of a Civil War always peaks my interest. In addition, getting to visit the Lincoln Memorial for the first time a few years ago was one of my favorite experiences
Not really, changing the course of history isn’t automatically a good thing. Bad people can change it for the worse and like Woodrow Wilson or not (I don’t), it’s hard to argue that he didn’t change history.
TBF, Lincoln wasn't perfect. He suppressed the media's criticism of his handling of the Civil War, and his biggest mistake was picking Johnson as his VP.
@@b71488FDR was the worst, are you serious? Do you know how horrible he was to the Japanese? That's just one thing that makes him awful. The best presidents are Reagan, JFK, and Washington (not necessarily in that order).
There were enough for honorable mentions Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of independence) James Monroe (The forefather of noninternventionism) Dwight D. Eisenhower (Much of the world's foreign policy is based on policies)
My favorite US President is definitely Abraham Lincoln. He was such a good man. With the American Civil War, the south tried to break free from the United States Of America and become their own nation, the Confederate States Of America. Not on Lincoln’s watch! He was able to lead the Union to victory, free all of the slaves, and kept us together as 1 country. He also made the beloved holiday Thanksgiving a federal holiday. With the Civil War happening, and the nation extremely divided, he was trying to find a way to bring people together. A woman named Sarah Hale has an idea for him, which would be based off of the 1621 Harvest Celebration. It was to make a holiday to give thanks for what we have. She met with Lincoln, discussed it, and he loved her idea so much. He officially made Thanksgiving a national holiday after that. It is so upsetting that John Wilkes Booth assassinated him. He did it because he thought that if it was done, slavery would return. And oh boy, he was so wrong! He got what was coming to him though, after a huge manhunt.
Sure Reagan made a difference. It was during the Reagan administration that opposition to protecting the environment and a general anti knowledge attitude took over the GOP
And was the first presidency in which the US started accumulating a national debt and in many ways the one who drove the US to permanently occupy the middle East militarily.
Everything that's bad in nowadays America started with Reagan. And if it started before Reagan then Reagan made it worse. So yeah, he made a difference...
I actually wonder if Reagan revived the philosophies of Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s: low taxes, less regulation & 'laissez faire' economics that eventually went 'pop' in 1929/2008.
I personally remember Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" speech. Reagan's staff had to find Wall still standing for Reagan to make the speech in front of. Gorbachev is 100% responsible for putting himself out of a job and returning autonomy to Warsaw Pact nations. Reagan was a turd and I say that as a fan of his when he was elected in 1980 but I despised him before he left Office.
Lyndon B. Johnson wasn’t really a good president. He basically took credit for the most of the things JFK wanted to do. Civil Rights Act was basically JFK plan but Johnson gets the credit for it.
I think LBJ was unlucky in the light of Vietnam, but he was fulfilling the legacy of slain JFK. I sometimes think it was more powerfully resonant for Lyndon Johnson as a southerner & who grew up in the segregated Jim Crow South to sign the Civil Rights Act than the northerner Kennedy. Johnson's embrace of the Civil Rights Movement irreversibly transformed the Democratic Party, which had always been the white southern planters' party since the founding of America.
Ahem, *coughs* Sally Hemings ... But I agree, Jefferson was larger than life and author of the Declaration of Independence. Arguably, the founder of party politics that would have disappointed George Washington. It is notable how important Virginia was as a fulcrum between northern and southern states in the early years of the USA.
@UnitedStatesBall-yt5 Nixon clearly had his issues, and in few ways if any was not a great guy. But he did pass a large amount of environmental bills that are still prevalent today, and ended America’s involvement in Vietnam. Though I believe a lot of that was motivated for political gains, and not for any moral. If I remember correctly, it’s been awhile, but worth looking into.
@@johnjames502 , the video is literally about presidents who changed the course of history, not who was the best president. Either way, Obama is too recent for us to see fully the impact of his presidency.
It figures that Lincoln would be number 1 on this list, I mean after all out of all the presidents in US history Lincoln truly changed the country for the better!
@mrhumble2937 @lexkanyima2195 uh, One major thing: slavery. Washington never talked about slavery, why, because he owned slaves. Lincoln hated slavery. He thought that all people were equal, something that is still being fought for today.
@@xaviercardoza1230 Well the thing about Lincoln ending slavery is that he only did it because he didn't want free states to become slave states. He didn't end it entirely for the benefit of the slaves. Lincoln just wanted to prevent slavery from spreading across the rest of the US.
If Vietnam didn't happen for LBJ, he would have been a top 5 president of all time. Got nearly all of the civil rights legislation through like the Voting Rights Act of 1964 and Civil Rights Act. Got Medicare and Medicaid through Congress. Unemployment was from 1966 up until Nixon took over in 1969 UNDER 4%. He had Congress wrapped around his fingers, but sadly again Vietnam took him down. He knew he would lose in 1968 if he ran so he didn't.
Lyndon Johnson was a monster who actually talked to staff members while he sat on the toilet taking a dump. It could be argued that he was part of the group that assassinated his predecessor. Just months after taking office the CIA faked a military incident to justify the mass military involvement of the US in Vietnam, which vastly helped Fort Worth Texas based Bell Helicopters and General Dynamics (LBJ was from Texas). Finally, LBJ frequently used the N word when talking about black people.
LOL he started 'The great society', spent trillions of dollars making government encroached in nearly every area of American life, offer subsidies, threatening prostitutions, Intergenerational poverty through sponsorship of single motherhood through welfare programs disincentivized marriage, black single motherhood in 1960 was under 20% and its now over 70% because of this, between 1963 and 2011 the federal government spent 13 trillions fighting poverty , the poverty rate in 2012 was 15% which was slightly HIGHER than in 1966 basically spent 13 TRILLIONS dollars to increase the poverty rate, he got America deeply involved in the war in Vietnam which was disastrous.
LBJ wanted to prove that he wasn't accidental president by coming to power after JFK's assassination, even though he was Texas and supported segregation early in his career he also felt compelled to continue Kennedy's work for civil rights because he felt it necessary to honor his legacy, nobody ever knew that he was secretly supported the Civil Rights Act
Abraham Lincoln... From Pro wrestling superstar to great President. Also a lot of people overlook FDR in spite of the great things he did like ending prohibition and implementing social security and carrying the US through ww2.
Barack Obama should definitely be on the list. Always level headed promoted and got passed Obama care and also through his leadership we saw our economy rebound unemployment lowered and dealt strategically with the capture of Osama binLaden and seemed to show the elites that the US was not a nation to “play around with.”
Truman also vaporized or burnt alive 170.000 civilians and killed by cancer another tens of thousands launching 2 bombs that were not aiming at Japan but at Stalin. And Wilson is one of the major factors in the outburst of WWII.
LBJ - A Very Progressive President at that time that cared about advancing The Civil Rights of Black men & women. & getting played by Bryan Cranston was awesome. 🧏🏿♂️🙆🏿♀️🙆🏻♀️🙆🏽♀️
The Rosevelts will always be the root core of my political philosophy, they both gave the middle finger to establishment parties and brought economic prosperity to the nation.
@@rp2808exactly people need to understand the history of both parties because Democrats were originality the conservatives and the republicans were the liberals before the idealologies flipped in the 20th century
I had no idea that all these presidents changed the course of history. That's great! I do remember the emancipation proclamation. It is nice seeing pictures and clips of these presidents. They did everything good for the country.
I like the the ten that where selected based on the criteria of changing history. I think Reagan should probably have been bumped up to #3 at least on the list and Teddy R. to #4.
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Washington should have been #1 with Madison #2 ... luckily this video is not entitled The Best/Worst Presidents because there are a couple of both that are on this list ... particularly Worst
Eisenhower approved the disastrous U2 spy flight over Russia, which damaged our credibility with just about everyone. You're right about Obama, though.
I think Madison played a bigger role as a founding father than president. I also think that Polk should be on this list because he got the US into a war with Mexico which (along with purchasing the Oregon territory) gave the US gaining the west coast. This led to westward expansion which also led to the expansion of slavery which inevitably led to the Civil War.
Lincoln has always been one of my favorite Presidents, & my favorite thing Lyndon B. Johnson did was the Public Broadcasting Act, I grew up with PBS as a kid.
Washington gets number one in my book, not only being the first but the first man to handle the job as Commander in Chief which he was appointed during the rebellion against the British Empire. Lincoln gets number two in my book for the reasons this video stated. Thomas Jefferson earned number 3.
I appreciate that George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt on the list and I love the explanations about those two greatest presidents that changed the world around me. Other presidents that should be on this list is Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Bill Clinton, President Trump
