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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/18/pre....ap/index.html
1. James Buchanan - failing to avert the civil war 2. Andrew Johnson - side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery 3. Lyndon Johnson - escalating the Vietnam War 4: Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. 5: Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up. 6: James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain. 7: Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. 8: John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua. 10. Bill Clinton & Monica |
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Interesting - eight were blunders for the nation. Watergate and Monica were really personal blunders - they didn't have any direct influence on the country. Not sure they can't come up with something a little bit more relevant as a blunder.
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Also, five were in the last 50 years, seems like there's a little bias there.
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Sean Archer:Webster McRiley::Michelangelo's David:The ashtray your kid made at camp ---Luda Math is like lazy white person kryptonite. ---tenthring At the very least, call a flagrant if a knife to the dong is involved. ---Keep it rea, Yo "Best of... Westley" thread: http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actu...ad.php?t=52501 |
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I agree.
Most of these published surveys are heavily biased towards what people can remember. |
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1. Disagree - By Buchanon's Presidency the Civil War was unavoidable
2. Perhaps. I need to learn more. 3. Disagree - Vietnam was a just war that was winnable. 4. Disagree - France screwed Wilson - France wanted to humiliate Germany. Wilson handled it poorly in the US by alienating the Senate - perhaps the Senate shares some (maybe most - not sure) of the blame. Most of the blame rests w/ France - terms of the ToV set the stage for WW2. 5. Agree 6. Not sure - I need to learn more. 7. Not sure - I need to learn more. 8. Bay of Pigs didn't lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred b/c the Soviets wanted to park nukes in our backyard, period. 9. Mixed on this one - From what little I know, it seems to me that laws were broken for a noble purpose. I need to learn more b/c at the time I didn't pay too much attention to politics. 10. Disagree sort of - it was the perjury that was the blunder. But you don't get the purjury w/o the original offense. All in all I'm not too impressed with the list.
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