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Well of course any statement of preference would draw comparisons.
When somebody proclaims that Bond would support Trump because "he is resourceful and no snowflake", it warrants a reaction, don't you think?
One question naturally leads itself to the other.
Lincoln became well-regarded in the south after his assassination, because southerners assumed (probably wrongly) that he would have been mild toward the south during reconstruction. In the decades afterward, when national unity was fostered by ignoring what happened to freed blacks, Lincoln and Lee were valorized as heroic leaders of a tragic war between brothers (the south's "kost cause"), while Grant was demonized as a drunken butcher. But today Lee's statues are being pulled down in the more progressive areas of the south while Lincoln's reputation remains deservedly high and Grant's rises by leaps and bounds.
This. Let's keep it on topic everyone and not turn it into another Trump bashing thread, regardless of your feelings of him.
Is Grant considered a great general or a great (or at least good) president? I understand he is regarded as a lousy president overall. I'd say he was at least a great general. And apparently my presidential alter ego.
Lincoln certainly considered Grant a great general, and Grant's military leadership paved the way to the White House. But a few decades after Grant's presidency, his reputation in both areas began suffering--influential southern historians began portraying him as a bloodthirsty general who sacrificed too many men and as an incompetent President ruling over a corrupt administration.
Grant was gradually again recognized as a great general in the post WWI period, when his total-war tactics were recognized as familiar and effective. But he was still widely regarded as one of the worst Presidents. Now he is being re-evaluated--two popular and influential revisionist biographies of him have been recently published, and historians are recognizing that Grant tried to make the Reconstruction work and make life easier for freed African Americans. True, some of his cabinet members were corrupt, but he wasn't and plenty of later administrations in the Gilded Age were. So now the historical consensus would probably rank Grant as an above-average President, and undeniably better than anyone between him and Teddy Roosevelt.
Grant also has the additional credit of having written the best Presidential memoirs in American history. The only man who might have done a better job, Lincoln, never got the chance.
Haha! Good one. You can keep him.
Like what exactly?
He sent in the army to protect the Little Rock 9, the interstate highway, ending the Korean War, NASA. In general staying out of conflict like in Hungaria because of his military background and not wanting to send troops to die for no reason
One black mark on his record is that his foreign policy interventions in Latin America and the Middle East (aside from Suez) came back to bite America in the ass. But succeeding presidents made equally bad, and sometimes worse, foreign policy mistakes.
Best Presidents in my Lifetime (1962 -)
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
My Favorite Presidents (listed chronologically)
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Barack Obama
The Greatest U.S. Presidents of All Time
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
No. He does not get overlooked. I noted Eisenhower's qualities earlier in this thread.
Yes,he always liked a good fiddle.
Nixon was one of the most gifted men to ever be president--and of one of the most unscrupulous, bigoted, lawless, devious, etc...
Evil, but not stupid. And educated too.
I think we're using evil a little too liberally. It's Nixon. Not Hitler or Stalin lol.
Hitler was really multitalented and Stalin was at least a successful bank robber in his youth.