Why Woodrow Wilson was one of the WORST U.S. Presidents 

Didn't the "S" stand for nothing? I thought I remembered reading that somewhere but could be wrong.

@@MollymaukT that's what i thought too

I don’t think his middle name was actually Simpson.

>lynch king junior Lmfao

​@@MollymaukT ​I think the Simpson was his mother's maiden name? Though I could be wrong on that. Not sure how it ended up as the middle initial though.

He wasn’t in long enough to mob up brother

@@night6724 Everyone has good and bad in them. Some people grossly outweigh one or the other.

@@night6724 yes the founder of the central bank the most corrupt organization in western civilization eliminated corruption

in Jersey they have got that pygmy thing.

@@BountyFlamor Jersey's a small state, Taft moves in- he could flip it over.

It’s because he truly was a fascist and monster. Loved the KkK and single handedly resegregated the Federal Government. Yes resegregated needs to be a word for what Wilson did

Well Wilson also pushed for the Federal Trade Commission and the Adamson Act and the Federal Reserve and the income tax and the Clayton Antitrust Act. Now conservatives and libertarians would oppose his economic policies because of how liberal they were. But just like how basically everyone including myself agrees that FDR’s internment of the Japanese Americans was bad, everyone including myself denounces Wilson for being a racist and a segregationist.

Quite the obvious for my teacher, he said he was very similar to TR, and in some ways helped America, and even acknowledged his racial views saying that that’s one of the few problems with him, and to be honest, I used to hate Woodrow Wilson, now I think people bash him way too much, like I get the sedition act and espionage act but that doesn’t make him one of the worst U.S. Presidents.

I just had the same experience! Like I’d never heard much about him but then my history teacher was saying how he was the worst guy to ever be president in the US

It wasn't me was it? I can't help but rant about him

Yeah I think he has a much better reputation internationally than he does here in the US and that is understandable.

The same with Thatcher who has a universally beloved reputation in Eastern Europe, while her reputation in the UK is a lot more controversial and divided along partisan lines.

That was one of the points which I think made Wilson not too horrible as Bucannan. Overall, I rate him 50/50. Not all too bad but not entirely good, so a meh.

Reminds me of Rutherford B. Hayes and how he is seen as a somewhat mediocre/below average and forgettable president here in the US, but in Paraguay he is lauded for his arbitration and favor to Paraguay after the disastrous Paraguayan war.

I think I heard when Mr Beat was talking about him that as far as internationally he was amazing, but as far as for the US he was bad.

I dislike Wilson solely cuz he prevented President Rosevelt from joining in the frontlines, the war would've been quicker with Rosevelt in the frontlines

@@erichvondonitz5325 Theodore Roosevelt is on another level of badass. Sadly, the reason people didn't voted him for his third term is because he was considered as war hawk/pro-war. Even though if America joined earlier, the war would ended much faster.

@@aaronclarke7732 Many youtubers and some historian suspected that with Teddy Roosevelt policy of strengthening the sea, USA can pretty much blockade Germany from their colonies. The U-boat still need to emerge from the sea to launch their torpedoes. Of course I can be wrong.

@@unknownguyindo4356 German colonies had zero impact on the war. They were late to the 'colony game' so they only had a few and actually didn't make much of them. Also the British already had a sea blockade and it was so effective that civilians starved in Germany, how much more could've been done? The U-boats also had not much impact on the war, yes they sank ships, but it didn't stop the blockade, it didn't stop the supplies for the allies. Actually the Germans ended there submarine war in 1918 even before the war ended because they thought it wasn't effective enough.

@@unknownguyindo4356 And if America actually joined the war and TR managed to convince the American public that it was necessary enough, not only the war would have ended the quicker but also the League of Nations will actually be an effective organization as the US would be inclined to join. The fiasco with the Sykes Picot agreement might have been averted with Teddy Roosevelt's firm yet efficient handling of properly dividing state boundaries for some would be independent nations out of the former Ottoman Empire. There will be still othercolonies though, but the only thing negative about it is that their independence might take a little longer but he practice was slowly dying out anyway and with that, almost ever colony on Earth in the what could have been timeline would have gained their independence peacefully with almost no bloodshed and no state boundary disputes. Hell even the communists revolutions Russia and maybe the world might have been averted. The Russian Empire will still fall, but Russia could have been a democratic nation once they are deposed. Additionally, it's maybe probable Nicholas II could still abdicate a bit more peacefully or at least peaceful enough that his family does not get massacred by anyone. What could have been.... Really.

Wilson was even more racist than the Nazis.

How do you manage to win the gubernatorial race in Iowa, if you hate Germans? You gotta lie through your nose about your beliefs to pull that off.

@@johanrunfeldt7174 I don’t know the details of his campaign, but because of him Iowa was the only state to outlaw the German language.

@@bigdawgtojo1998 doesn’t that go against the amendement

@@painvillegaming4119 legally it does, but then again, in a wartime period, governments end up approving emergency measures to deal with potential issues

What country? Always interesting to here a foreign perspective on our history.

If you are not familiar with Moldova, it is a small country in Eastern Europe mainly known for our wine but in history terms we are famous for a certain individual, the cousin of Vlad the Impaler, Stefan cel mare otherwise known as Stephan the Great who is known for being the king of Moldova but also making Moldova a shining beacon of independence against the Hungarians but more notably the Ottomans.

He defeated the Ottomans during the time of Muhammad the conqueror. He is probably the most underrated and best military mind and king probably in Europe if not the world.

@@BalkanVlach I’m guessing you’re a proud Moldovan?

@@jimreilly917 yes

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Oh yeah I love those He was the guy who taught me about how awful the Wilson administration was. I previously just knew him as the guy who took advantage of the Republican split and started the League of Nations

I agree! Along with Cynical Historian’s video on the Lost Cause as well. He has many great videos, and if you like Mr. Beats videos, you’ll also like the Cynical Historian’s videos as well! 👍

I second this

Yes his videos on Wilson are a must see

Subjective is an interesting descriptor. He was racist. Against everyone non WASP.

Many Historians have an odd fetish with liking presidents that do stuff, be it good or bad, and hence a president like Wilson is overrated and a president like Coolidge is underrated.

@@MondoBattlefield That’s a really good point. Wilson definitely did not sit back and try not to get shit done, though obviously it doesn’t mean it was for the better.

@@MondoBattlefield I mean Coolidge not doing anything is part of the problem. Keeping people like Andrew Mellon in the administration as Secretary of the Treasury is a mistake on a magnitude not forgivable. Mellon's huge corruption problem, his ineffective policy, and his later implicit support of things such as the anti-free trade Smooth-Hawley Tariff during the Hoover years which ruined our economy much more than needed during the depression make him a mistake that tarnishes every President that touches him.

He did amazing things though

Same thing for me. Tho also I read Wilson's Biography, cause I read every presidents, and he was pretty suck.

@@omalleycaboose5937 yeah him basically injecting the klan with steroids by showing a pro kkk movie in the White House was the single worst thing he did to this country

Those people are often either educated or prop up the progressive policies he had and ignored or sidelined the Imperialist and racist policies he implemented.

@@kamdenmadan3289 he literally then said “ladies you should love Wilson he gave you the right to vote.” 😂😂😂😂

@Trade Bum Simmons true but I was 15 at the time lol

Thank you Rashid. I’m glad you’re a part of this community.

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No

@@goldbird0315 What are you talking about dude

@@costellotocustelow03 obviously a joke

ironically he wanted the US to join the League of Nations. But Congress said no

Yeah, it’s a major oversight in the way we teach US history. I’m a huge American history buff, and I could barely tell you anything about the presidencies between Lincoln and McKinley, other than major events like the Panic of 1873 and Garfield’s assassination. That whole Gilded Era just blurs together.

The Father of the IRS

Which are good things that benefitted the country

Those things would have happened no matter who the president was. The plans were inherited from Teddy Roosevelt.

Samee

The Soviet propaganda film “Battleship Potemkin” is highly regarded, too. Ive watched BoaN and Potemkin, but I’ve never seen Triumph.

Still think it was funny the British basically ytp'd Triumph of the will

@@Saltyoven what do you mean by ytp?

@@abdihassan7208YTP is short for RU-vid Poop. A while back on RU-vid, that was a popular kind of video where creators would take an original media like a film or TV show, edit things for comedy, and produce a fun, wacky parody version of the original. I don’t see these kinds of videos on RU-vid quite as much now, but they used to be very common.

Oh, I looked it up and it said it was David Dwight Eisenhower.

And said initials lent themselves perfectly to a civil war nickname. After Fort Donelson he became to troops, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER Grant.

John Calvin Coolidge

I appreciate you taking the time to say so. Glad to know I’ve made a difference.

Invasion from Denmark - just a joke, right?

@@peterkragelund4794 Actually, no. From what I understand, the German army was so badly stretched even in early 1917 that they were worried about Denmark invading in retaliation for the unrestricted submarine warfare.

@@nicholasconder4703 Despite the fact that Denmark would have loved to be able to militaryly liberate the part of Slesvig that eventually became (and still is) part of Denmark in 1920 after a referendum - the German high command must have been out of their minds with paranoia if their seriously thought that we represented a threat to them. I know a bit about my countrys history and that possibility has never come up, Denmark and the other Scandinavian countries with worried sick about the possibility of being dragged into the war - and cooperated politically to avoid just that. It is true however that during WW2 the Germans misspent ressorces in orden to fortify the West Coast of Denmark. The Allies did not dream about staging an invasion through Denmark because the penisular from west to east is so narrow (42 miles) between Denmark and Germany.

@@peterkragelund4794 I know. It says an awful lot about the German mindset during WW1 that they thought this. Then again, this is also the nation that as late as October 1918 wanted, as part of a peace settlement, to retain control of Belgium. They also had over half a million men still in Russia busily expanding their holdings there. And, they are also the nation that sent the Zimmerman telegram. From everything I have seen in recent years, it is almost like someone took the inmates from an insane asylum and put them in charge of Germany from at least the early 1900s.

@@nicholasconder4703 The Zimmermann Telegram only guaranteed the American Southwest to Mexico in the event of war between Germany and the USA. It did not actually call for Mexico to just randomly launch an unprovoked attack against a neutral state.

Eh the Federal Reserve and Income tax/payroll tax are good things. Monetary policy is an important economic tool that the Federal Reserve can use, and they helped avoid a repeat of the Great Depression by increasing the supply of money is tandem with fiscal stimulus. At least, that's an open option once the gold standard was finally destroyed (good companion actions of FDR in 1933 and Nixon decades later). For income tax, that funds a huge chunk of programs that have lowered poverty rates and make investments like NASA possible. Without that, we'd still be dependent on tariffs and the alcohol tax. And tariffs are bad economics.

Yes, how does this video not address the two most destructive initiatives in US history? For all of Wilson’s racism and other nonsense, the income tax and Fed were his worst legacies.

@@AdamVassGal I believe I was posting in order to EMPHASIZE these issues, as I consider them to be more heinous than the others mentioned. I don't see them getting rectified unless people like myself are squeaky wheels. However, it has been awhile since I watched the video in question and may have forgotten the point of the post.

Income tax was Taft not Wilson

Well yeah, you got elite Democrat libs making the rankings. Can't rank a Democrat low. There is a reason why FDR is always ranked at the top even though he actually extended the great depression. Usually they'll rank Wilson above Reagan

He was though. The man was unquestionably the most revolutionary and progressive president the USA has ever had. The problem is your textbook didn’t realise that was the whole crux of the problem.

@@Longshanks1690 FDR was the most economically progressive president ever and was certainly one of the best, Lincoln was a progressive (for his time in the USA) in regards to slavery. Wilson was against progress on many issues, and was in a way reactionary ( he literally segregated the federal government).

@@Longshanks1690 who

@@Mafube_Molange not true. Buchanan, A. Johnson and Pierce are almost always ranked as the bottom 3 presidents despite being dems

I thought you were talking about Woodrow Wilson for a second there

Everyone has biases; he's said many times that he does.

Because Historians like Presidents who do things. It doesn’t matter if the things are awful because it gives them things to talk about, so FDR and Wilson get ranked highly while ma boi Coolidge gets shafted because he was seen as a “do nothing,” when that’s the whole reason why people like me adore him.

@@Longshanks1690 FDR is overrated too. he was also a racist, and he put japanese-americans in internment camps. without any trial or due process. wilson was a catastrophe in almost every conceivable way. definitely bottom 5 and quite possibly the worst of them all. andrew johnson was also a catastrophe. there might be no one less suitable to be president immediately following a civil war fought primarily over slavery. speaking of dicks, i don't know why the other johnson gets so much love either. LBJ was a completely reprehensible human being, and got american troops involved in the vietnam war. i don't really have any issue with coolidge. which might in itself puts him near the top, probably. nowadays, the democratic candidates are all alike, and the republican candidates are all alike, and whichever party wins, america loses. because none of them give a damn about the people their office is supposed to serve. americans don't really have a say in who governs them. american democracy is illusory at best. when your choices are trump or biden, it's like being offered a choice of how you'd rather be ass-raped, because not at all is not an option.

@@doaftheloaf LBJ is ranked highly because of his domestic policies, especially civil rights legislation.

@@otisdylan9532 he does have that going for him, which is a good thing because he’s got nothing else. well, at least he’s the better johnson, but that’s a low bar.

@@Longshanks1690 FDR deserves the high spot, but not Wilson Coolidge is top 10 president

"helped win ww1"... a gerbil as POTUS could've won WW1

bro ww1 was lead by britan and germany although america contributed at the end even if they didnt Germany would end up running out of supply in. a few years anyway

@@karamvirsingh3097 I’d rather have them join than as long as the war didn’t go on a second longer

No one said that ever when I was in school.

You're right. That would be an interesting topic to dive into.

A lot of it has to do with the awful mess Grant was saddled with trying to clean up after Andrew Johnson. Not only was Grant trying to rebuild the South, but he was also having to fight both the KKK and those northerners who wanted the South to suffer for causing and prosecuting the war. I don't think there are many people who could have managed this, and most would certainly have flubbed it really badly.

@@nicholasconder4703 The point is that in the last 100 years, we have learned almost nothing new about Grant or his administration. History did not change, however his ranking by historians has, because historians changed. This happens with most presidents, however it is most profound with grant. This is a phenomenon that others have noted and commented upon, and has specific reasons and individuals that have driven this. For me, it is a reminder that history is in fact constantly being reinterpreted, and as new generations of historians come of age, frequently are understanding of the past changes even if we learned nothing new.

@@nicholasconder4703 Also, "Drunken Butcher Grant" of the Lost Cause didn't do U. S. Grant any favours.

@@danielrichwine2268 Good point.

No I was thinking of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. Grant's name had been changed to Ulysses Simpson Grant by the time he was President. As a child he went by Ulysses Hiram by switching his first and middle names. Simpson only came in because of a screw up in his West Point nomination, so he just kept the change.

@@VloggingThroughHistory I had no idea there was a West Point screwup. Very cool

Wilson didn't put the harsh terms on Germany, he acquiesced to the UK and France, especially France, putting harsh terms on Germany. I'm not a fan of WIlson either, BTW.

Vietnam was always going to happen. It wasn't a struggle over economic ideology but one of independence. Its not like communism made the French hold onto their colonies post WWII. Algeria also rebelled, and was lost by the French, to become a republic. We should have sided with the Vietnamese against the French as colonial liberators. Ho Chi Minh could then ally with the US instead of Mao Zedong. Economics and diplomacy are mixed.

@@jeffredfern3744 "We should have sided with the Vietnamese against the French." Agree 100%

We should have never joined WW1. 117k dead for no gain for the US He was so incompetent at governing that he could not stop the Bolsheviks from taking power. An invasion of Russia for nothing He barely did anything to get a fair redrawing of Europe

@@jeffredfern3744 If Woodrow Wilson granted Vietnam independence, and never snubbed Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam War never happens

This applies to literally any figure in history one can name, very rare exceptions notwithstanding. It’s odd for someone to live up to their reputation.

History teachers just love lying lol luckily we have clogging through history who drops knowledge bombs 24/7

I get the impression the original video left out some content on purpose since the guy was dedicated enough to make another woodrow wilson hate day video with some of the things mentioned at the end like segregation in the government (so more content for later)

I don't think everyone would agree that many of the things you just listed are positives.

@@VloggingThroughHistory that’s fair. But I think most people would agree with most of those things. Even if we don’t like them many are necessary for a modern society. The federal reserve is essential even though it has it’s issues. Every country needs a central bank. I think most people agree with trust busting. He agreed with Roosevelt on that. The League of Nations is controversial, but I believe that there would be more conflict in the world without international organizations so even though it has its issues it is necessary. And I know some people don’t like the income tax, but we wouldn’t be able to function as a society and pay for roads, bridges, military, police, etc without it. Without it we’d have a collective action problem with public goods

There is literally nothing he could have done to force the European Entente to ever accept his terms short of going to war. That's such an absurd thing to hold against him.

… yeah anyways, Canada bitch

@@stephenjenkins7971 Except he could. The UK/French needed massive reparations from Germany to repay American debts. If America weren't so aggressive in pursuing those debts then they wouldn't have bankrupted Germany. There was a debt pyramid between Germany-Entente-America that was entirely controlled by America at the top. Also Wilson not joining the league undermined it from day one.

@@jgw9990 Most of the reparations were caused by war damage, not American debts. US debts were constantly argued lower during and after the Versailles Treaty, and were nowhere near high enough to justify the reparations cost. In cast the US itself would refuse to sign the Versailles Treaty and sign a separate treaty that had no such reparations scheme and then provide Germany with cheap loans to help it on its feet at great cost to the US itself. It was because of the US that Germany had a mini-Golden Age post-WW1 and pre-WW2, in fact. What brought that crashing down and made Versailles' damage via France/UK inevitable was the Great Depression which siphoned all American credit from Germany which was keeping it afloat. Convenient you forgot to mention that.

The thing about Hoover was that he was a good man, but an incompetent leader. Wilson was downright evil.

Harding was a decent president, actually. I believe this for the following reasons 1. Attempted to make lynching illegal, and was in support of black voting rights 2. Released political prisoners that got imprisoned under Woodrow Wilson 3. Introduced the Federal highway act of 1921 4. Opposed US intervention in Latin America 5. Implemented programs to help poor mothers which reduced infant mortality rates and deaths from child birth 6. Ended the Wilsonian recession, through years of high GDP growth, reduced unemployment, and lowering inflation 7. The roaring 20s began under him 8. Handling of the Washington Naval Conference in 1921-22 9. President Harding signed a peace treaty with Austria and Germany post World War I. 10. He pulled the country out of Woodrow Wilson’s politics 11. Helped implement the 8 hour work day in the steel mills industry 12. Signed the Sweet Act 13. Budget and Accounting Act 14. Packers and Stockyards Act 15. Reduced national debt and balanced the budget 16. Allowing Herbert Hoover to run the American Relief Administration, which saved over 10.5 million people from starvation, and provided medicine to millions 17. Withdrew troops from Cuba 18. Improving relations with Canada, by being the first sitting American president to tour and give a speech there

@@yarlodek5842 Jimmy Carter was similar to Herbert Hoover in that same sense

Plus you know screening The Birth of a Nation in the White House

Well Said.

Aside from the League of Nations (UN is better), those are all good things. Income tax gives us enough revenue to lower trade barriers and address poverty head on. 17th Amendment is pro-democracy. League of Nations was all about using diplomacy to avoid war, and the Federal Reserve allows for monetary policy give the private sector what they need to tackle recessions.

@@jamesleckie1829 The Federal Reserve is not a good thing. Wilson sold us out to The Big Banks.

@@crusader2112 the ability of the Federal Reserve to control interest rates, assess banks, and at least offer some sort of regulation of the banks where the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, FDIC, IRS, and others cannot is good. Not allowing for some version of control just makes recessions worse when they happen. Just like freeing up our Currency by eliminating the gold standard was a good idea, the Federal Reserve is a good idea. The whole initial argument against the National Bank in the Jackson Era was: corruption, lack of available money, and quasi-arguments about slavery. The defense was about having a cohesive monetary policy. We got rid of slavery, via elimination of the gold standard we got rid of artificially tight money, and via eliminating a government sanctioned monopoly we got rid of a huge chunk of corruption. The Federal Reserve at least allows for some imperfect oversight over the banking system, and returns some cohesiveness along with the FDIC and OCC.

How so? Like just the idea itself is insane?

@@jamesleckie1829 well because Joe Biden is in a cave and doesn't speak to the media, ever. Isn't it obvious?

@@showbuster he's at the White House and gives speeches and takes questions all the time. Like every time he meets a foreign dignitary. I think that stems from the fact that he and Trump didn't do many proper press conferences, but they still gave speeches and were in meetings fairly constantly (regardless of if you agree with their actions or not). This is one of those things that circulate the internet that just isn't really true at all.

@@jamesleckie1829 The fact you wrote such a long message just to defend a terrible administration tells me a lot. You say "This is one of those things that circulate the internet that just isn't really true at all". well, look at it yourself you poor brainwashed man. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NHgjWQxMuKk.html here is another example lol : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lTHzCi3j6IA.html

@@showbuster dude, I've literally watched some of the live speeches. You're being tricked by poorly edited clips and a toxic media environment. There's plenty you can find to critique without going to the lowest common crap possible. The fact that this is your link tells me a lot about you.

Yeah, he wasn't Wilson bad. Come to think of it, we probably could use a separate category for that

And James Buchanan was a good president.

Agreed

Same with Clinton and Blair in kosovo. Just to bad they were actually mass murdering POS ww1,iraq wars respectively. One made possible for his country to become a privately owned coropration by the banks the others followed suit. As an albanian I don't want no support or sympathy from this man. He spoke in favour of us so what? In the end it was Austro hungary,Italy and Britain intervention that made it possible for us to exist. USA did nothing. Same with kosovo. There was no independence. The kosovo traded yugoslavia for nato and being a puppet of usa they do whatever usa tells including to get down on their knees and lick the dirt off their boots. Both Albania and Kosovo are shitholes owned by banks and politician sellouts now.

He might have been good for your country, but terrible for us

Also the location of his presidential library.

I haven't read that. I'll have to check it out. And thank you for the kind words.

@@VloggingThroughHistory I'd highly recommend it. It's a far more interesting election than the blowout would suggest because of all the past, present, and future presidents involved. And I meant every word I said. I really can't express how much I appreciate what you do here.

Yeah I'd like to see that. TimeGhost History also has a video called "Versailles Treaty ≠ Hitler’s Rise to Power", where they argue that the treaty leading directly to Hitler's rise to power is a Nazi myth.

@@Andrew.Schlei I have missed that one. Will check it out later, but yes. The stab in the back & Versailles leading to WW2 myths are kind of in question a lot in recent years.

...this man was hard-core racist. He embraced the KKK and white supremacy. Sorry dude but that's enough to put him right next to Andrew Johnson if not lower. Just because it was more acceptable at the time doesn't make it any better

The problem was the UK and France needed reparations to pay American debts that they refused to cancel. It wasn't just hate

Exactly.

Plus Germany's post war debt was actually caused by them bankrolling everything on credit. Why you ask? Cause they never thought they could loose until it was too late. The allies mostly used war bonds on the other hand to generate funding.

Germany's "punishment" wasn't worse than regular terms of surrender before WW1. The idea that Germany was pushed to dictatorship and another war by the treaty is a nazi propaganda.

It’s coming!

that could have, and probably would have, been done by any other candidate of the time in the same situation. basically all of europe going to war and killing each other was going to make that inevitable no matter when or if america entered the war at all, or on which side. it would take someone even less competent than wilson to fuck that up. trump or bush the younger may qualify for that. wilson was absolutely awful, and an arrogant prick on top of that.

FDR helped made the US a superpower, by him taking one of the worst armies in the West, to the greatest army in the world, and pulling the US out of the great depression through the New Deal, and mostly pulling us into WW2 Wilson does not deserve credit for this. The US economy became the biggest in 1890 under Benjamin Harrison, and he stopped some common sense upgrades to the military.

I think they were doing the same - but just didn't get caught

Nixon deserves to be remembered as a terrible president, but for the following reasons 1. Aided the Bengali genocide which led to the deaths of 300k-3 million people and displacement of around ten million people, by supplying the Pakistani government with weapons to do the genocide. They did this because Pakistan was a capitalist ally in the Cold War. If the highest estimate of 3 million is to be used, it was one of the deadliest genocides in human history. 2. Watergate. It gets overblown considering how corrupt politicians are nowadays, and how it didn’t even change the course of the 1972 election, but still bad nonetheless 3. Stagflation, price control, and his overall handling of the economy 4. Bombings over Cambodia 5. War on Drugs, which contributed to America having the highest per capita substance abuse rate in the world, almost 3 times higher than the second highest country, being Canada. It also led to the US having the highest per capita prison population in the world, almost comparable to Stalin’s USSR in per capita imprisonment (0.7% to 0.86% of the population respectively) However, it was not until Reagan that it became the monstrosity it is today. 6. Fought back against Mcgovern’s guaranteed minimum income tax, which he knew would be easy to fund and implement 7. Sabotaged peace talks with Vietnam, in order to win the 1968 election. LBJ realized his mistake and started to negotiate with North Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. This made it possible for the democrats to win the 1968 election. Nixon saw this, and because he wanted to win the election instead, sabotaged peace talks, promising the North Vietnamese that they would get a better deal if Nixon was elected. Nixon expanded the war until his impeachment, and it would not be until Ford that there would be no more American deaths in Vietnam. According to History News Network, 21,041 Americans died in Vietnam under Nixon, with the total amount of troops dying in Vietnam being 58,220. The total Vietnamese death toll could be anywhere from 500k to 1.5 million dead under Nixon.

There was nothing new about wiretapping at the time. It was introduced in the 19th century and had undergone legal review. Maybe some particular technology was new, but the concept was not. And you can't be an actual criminal in office and escape the bottom ten IMO - at least until we have more than ten criminal presidents.

WAIT.... WHAT???