Only good/decent US president during the 20th century

Prove me wrong

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Carter was too good for this cruel world.

Perhaps the most moral and honest President, but he was a mediocre one too.

technically correct, the rest were outstanding or simply terrible

Name one outstanding 20th century US president

FDR

any roosevelt qualifies, actually

>FDR

Carter and bbcoolz are both pretty cool prezzies

I'm afraid a lot of people believe this is so, so I will bite...
>FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years
>Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937
>Quincy Agreement
>Executive Order 9066
>"Hitler didn't snub me—it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram." - Jesse Owens

He was terrible and presidential rankings are a joke.

Didn't he also make it worse for people to buy guns?

rollingstone.com/politics/news/fear-and-loathing-on-the-campaign-trail-1976-19760603

I think HST would like to disagree

...

Wasn't Thompson a bit of a lying fuckhead?

>Who is Ronald Reagan

Now that Veeky Forums is trying to prove to me that FDR wasn't good, I can safely assure myself that the opposite is truth.

>FDR prolonged the recession by 7 years
>depression ended in March 1933 when FDR launched the New Deal
>GDP recovered pre-depression levels in 1937
>20% higher by 1940 (7 years later)
>prolonged

Jimmy Rebel should have been made President for life.

This underrated and ignored man saved the world from communism.

He confronted them, not when they were a decadent paper tiger like in Reagan's time, but when they were at their strongest, dominating half of the world and with Western Europe in turmoil and at great risk of falling pray to their siren song.

The Marshall Plan and NATO were two strokes of brilliance and boldness that saved democracy from falling prey to the largest army in the world at the time and the strongest totalitarian state that ever existed at its peak.

>FDR prolonged the recession by 7 years
newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409

Yes. The NFA could have been much worse. The US could have had Britain tier terrible Gun laws if it wasn't for some senators and representatives. FDR still signed it.
>Literally the only reason why the NFA got passed were scare tactics about the Mob/Outfit (they used Sawn-Off shot guns and Tommy guns/SBRs). At that time they were mostly bankrupt due to repeal of Prohibition.

>Though a couple of years later, some Jewish associate of the Italian Mafia thought it would be a great idea to put a gambling/vice hub in the desert...

Also, I suggest watching "Wild River" if you want a GOAT A E S T H E T I C New Deal Core film.

Carter and Volcker gave the USA economic prosperity until the 90s and defeated the Soviety Union.

>*dies*
Really makes you think., doesn't it.

A champagne socialist. Bungled his way through everything. though remained popular because he kept handing out the government cheese and false hope.

he also probably set things up with japan to bait them into attacking us. So he could save his communist butt buddy Stalin.

Umm no try again sweetie :)

fpbp

Does Veeky Forums like Ike?

>was
He's still alive user. Chill out with the way you use words. This man is going to out live the Queen of England and become the eternal president.

but muh free market!!! all those jobless Americans just needed to lift themselves by the bootstraps!

Ike, LBJ, and Nixon were great, forceful men who led great, forceful presidencies. They led the nation through some of its greatest and darkest hours. Truly they were great men. That said, all three were pretty cynical and did some really shady things. Carter was the only decent President, which is unsurprising given that he ran on a platform of transparency and decency.

There's also this. Carter let Volcker reign in the economy during his Presidency (it wouldn't have been so noticeable without the Oil Crisis) to ensure that the economy wouldn't go into a big boom-bust cycle.

>was
You know he's not dead, right?

I respect Carter as a human being much more than I do as a president.

His malaise speech would be seen today as outright unamerican, but it was the kick in the teeth we really needed.

Forgot link
cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/crisis_of_confidence.html

Eisenhower

He's not Coolidge and Harding.

>A champagne socialist.
If he was anyway remotely a socialist, there would already be Socialist Republic considering the conditions for revolution is at its peak in the Great Depression. New Deal was designed to fix capitalism not kill it.

Carter's no saint. He was involved in big agro and enriched himself outrageously

You should compare the length and effects of the Great Depression in the UK versus America. UK did not have much gi
Government intervention where USA did. UK had a much shorter time of economic contraction than the US.

>because the economic and political situation of the uk and the fucking US are exactly the same

back to >>/r/libertarian brainlet

But it's true that FDR's New Deal was a continuation of Hoover's ideas and it prolonged the depression (which only ended AFTER the war). As Henry Morgenthaus said "We're spending more than ever and it doesn't work"

Does Veeky Forums have any good book recommendations on Carter?

Who was in the wrong here?

Carter's response to the oil crisis was to deregulate domestic prices of oil. Which greatly expanded domestic production and made a shit ton of people wealthy.

Ted Kennedy wanted to nationalize US oil. Imagine what a fucking money pit and failure that would have been. Nationalizing oil in a net import nation.

*disproves OP*

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fdr, jimbo carter, and jfk are the only us presidents i respect.

oh and possibly gerald ford, but he hardly counts.

Agreed. The rebuilding of western Europe was critical to the global economy.

He was the first neo liberal president, so he cannot be good.

FDR is the man

>we got the 2-term Wilson timeline instead of the President Hughes timeline
it hurts so much

Seriously, he had cancer but it has apparently disappeared. I could definitely see him living to witness the 2020 or even 2024 election outcomes.

FDR was a pinko commie.

>This

>continuation of Hoover's ideas

His fucking idea was to do nothing right now and maybe set up tariffs. That is the opposite of FDR

Was it Wilson or FDR that had vets forcibly dispersed because of a suspected communist influence?

Anyways, I'm pretty sure exactly none of our Presidents were communists.

>be catholic-hating freemason
>decide to nuke Nagasaki, the rome of the east and centre of catholicism in the east full of beautiful cathedrals, because of you're pent up masonic grudge against catholics

>ford
*blunders in SE Asian intensify*

Hoover.

HAhahaha did PBS tell you that? Roosevelt's advisor Rexford Tugwell admitted that New Deal was a continuation of Hoover's interventionist ideas (that Roosevelt promised to stop) like Smoot-Hawley tarrif.

Literally too good of a man/naive to be president
Even in old age he's still trying to help out people and doing a good job (better than his presidency)
We could use someone like him again with a proper cabinet

Truman was a slimy fuck

Red detected

He had slightly less charisma than an ameoba

youtube.com/watch?v=e3Ib4wTq0jY

*blocks your subsidies*

I love him so much.

>(((truMAN)))

Cal why did you take the job if you proceeded to do nothing?

>Hurr durr US made poor innocent nippon do it
Weeb pls go

If a President has to go on TV and explain that the reason everybody is miserable during his term is a "sense of national malaise," then odds are you may not be that great a President.

>Moral
>honest

At least, he played that part to the hilt. He was a clever and ruthless politician, a pious asshat, and a very bad president.

Perhaps he is still alive but no longer too good for this world.

Oh fuck, the Killer Rabbit, I almost forgot...

>If a President has to go on TV and explain that the reason everybody is miserable during his term is a "sense of national malaise," then odds are you may not be that great a President.

Better some actor become president and lie. Say everything is great and ignore problems.

>saves capitalism
>communist

Truman's the reason why we lost Korea (fired McArthur) and why the Soviets got the A Bomb. He (and Hoover) also stopped McCarthy from telling the US public about the commies in the govt.

>FDR
>Carter
>Reagan
>LBJ

All of these answers are correct. Would put Truman too but he was also a sadistic shit. Not sure about Ford too.

>those comments

...

>Reagan
>Not Ike or Nixon

Reagan is tied with Harding for worst Republican of the 20th Century.

North Korea wouldn't be a thing if he didn't chimp out on McArthur....

All he needed was one more term. Great lad prior to being a president as wll

>there's people stupid enough to believe this

Dugout Doug is the whole reason China got involved in the war, he was even hoping to go nuclear when Truman finally canned his noob ass. The Soviets were going to get the A-bomb eventually, they got it sooner than expected due to a very effective spy network.

>McCarthy
>a good thing

>Functional gun control
>Bad

Wew lad.

A senile old man who took credit for Carter's achievements.

Literal six year old. Warmonger and brutal imperialist.

This. Also redpilled on Israel and Iran

>a leader ignores problems and makes people feel nice about themselves while the whole world comes crashing down.

Worst

That was Reagan.

Carter created the malaise.

They were also the three worst.

Carters only achievement was being such a horrible president that we got the best (Reagan.)

Reminder that JFK started the Vietnam War and - oh, almost destroyed the planet.

1) Iranian hostages
2) gas lines
3) weakest military since ww2
4) highest inflation ever

Yeah Carter was such a "good" president?

The good news is his failures paced the way for the Reagan revolution.

>Created and supported the terroristic drug-running Contras, responsible for the rape, torture and murder of thousands
>Took Saddam Hussien off the Terrorist List in order to sell him the chemical weapons that annihilated Kurds and Iranians alike
>De-regulated Wall Street, one of the effects being the 2008 depression. It’s his deficit we are living with, as exposed by neo-liberal think-tank Mises
>>“The result has been unprecedented government debt. Reagan has tripled the Gross Federal Debt, from $900 billion to $2.7 trillion. Ford and Carter in their combined terms could only double it. It took 31 years to accomplish the first postwar debt tripling, yet Reagan did it in eight.”
>Gave corporations power not seen since the 19th century, leading to the paradoxical effect of higher worker productivity but lower wages (illegal firing of union organisers tripled under his leadership, and protectionism increased)
>Propped up South African apartheid at a time practically every other nation shunned it

Reagan.

>weakest military since ww2

That's meaningless.

No it's not, Carter destroyed what was left of military. It's one of the reason his "rescue" of the hostages failed so badly.

And what's the problem?
Oh no free market capitalism so horrible.
His policies created the largest most constant state of economic growth in American history. We are still benefiting from his policies. Every president even Democrats have maintained his supply side policies. They work.

Are there people who un ironically believe that this peanut farmer idiot wasnt the worst idiot to ever sit in the oval office? Every single thing was failing or worse off after this marxists appeaser left office

>No it's not, Carter destroyed what was left of military.

You mean the military which dwarfs the next eight biggest combined?

The Right have this bizarre, and inexplanable inferiority complex when it comes the military.

>His policies created the largest most constant state of economic growth in American history. We are still benefiting from his policies. Every president even Democrats have maintained his supply side policies. They work.

They work for the tiny minority at the top, sure. But living standards for everyone else are declining. This generation will be worse of than the previous and it's a direct result of neoliberalism.

(Also, one you learn that "even Democrats" are just another faction of the pro-business single party state, the better off you'll be.)

Sorry, the first point was meant for