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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Badger of Basra posted:

grant was a good president and if you think he was bad you're just buying into lost causer bullshit

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Dude screened "Birth of a Nation" in the White House, and called it "history writ with lightning," and that it was terrible that it was all so very true

This bit didn't actually happen, it was made up by the film's publicists. Doesn't make Wilson any less staggeringly racist though.

Wilson also repeatedly and specifically forbade the Army and Navy to make any sort of contingency preparations in case the USA became a belligerent in the First World War and famously campaigned on his maintaining of America's neutrality. Then he jumped into the war with both feet a few weeks after his second inauguration with the country completely unprepared to actually fight the drat war.

Vincent Van Goatse has issued a correction as of 05:29 on May 17, 2017

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
James Buchanan is still the gold standard for bad Presidencies, but Trump might actually be worse at simply being the President.

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