Yeah, that was my first choice too. Great achievements. great crimes. Ford has few crimes but some real achievements, not as great as Johnson's or Nixon's. If it hadn't been for the war, LBJ would have been greater than Lincoln.
--- "farmelantj at juno.com" <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> No, Lyndon Baines Johnson (as in "LBJ, LBJ, how many
> boys did you kill
> today?") was number 1. Remeber the Great Society
> and all that. Jerry
> Ford, however, does look like a giant compared to
> his successors.
>
> -- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ford being the first?
>
> --- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:26:24 -0700 (PDT) andie
> > nachgeborenen
> > <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes:
> > >
> > > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > New York Post [Page Six] - April 3, Elsewhere
> in
> > the
> > > book, Nixon says of
> > > > the press he
> > > > famously loathed for most of his career:
> > "Goddamn
> > > > newspaper ----.
> > > > They're a bunch of sluts."
> > >
> > > True, true. Nixon seem more and more right as
> the
> > > years go by.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > When I think about how Tricky Dick was at least
> the
> > second
> > most progressive president in my lifetime, and
> > incomparably more progressive than any of his
> > successors, it's enough to make you puke.
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