Warren Harding ordered Eugene Debs freed from prison along with other
antiwar activists that had been imprisoned under Wilson.  He also
reversed Wilson's racist policy of barring African-Americans from
federal appointments.

Jim F.

-- Carrol Cox <cbcox@ilstu.edu> wrote:



joanna wrote:
> 
> So apparently Carter said that Dubya was the worst American president.
> 
> Is that true?  What about Harding?

Hey! Harding was pretty harmless.

Polk: Launched war to expand slave territory; called by Grant the most
unjust war ever fought by a strong nation against a weak.

Buchanan: An actual traitor, moving militry equipment to the south
during the last months of his administration.

Andrew Johnson: Did his best to interfere with reconstruction.

Hayes: Ended reconstruction.

Wilson: Showed _Birth of a Nation_ to special White House audience;
invaded Mexico; led u.s. into one of the stupidest wars in history.

Truman: Launched red hunt; launched criminal Korean War; dropped two
A-bombs.

Kennedy: Risked blowing up the world; Bay of Pigs; Launched Vietnam War;
did his best to sabotage gathering push for black rights.

Carter: Issued (by silence) virtual death sentence to Bishop Romero;
responsible for slaughter in East Timor; against specific warnings
allowed criminal ex-Shah into the U.S., triggering hostage crisis;
responsible for slaughters in El Salvador; launched subversion efforts
in Afghanistan.

Harding doesn't come close.

Carrol

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