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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: 20 Jan 2025 00:35:35 -0000
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Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
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>I don't believe that Trump made James Buchanan look better.

Buchanan was incompetent and thought appeasement would keep the union
together.  In retrospect he was somewhat lacking in moral fibre although
he should get some credit... but the same kind of credit that Chamberlain
gets.  But Buchanan was not mercenary and trying to get as much as he
could out of the office.  And he really did want to keep the union together
even if he had no idea how to do it.

On the other hand, Harding, whom I would say probably was the worst 
president of all time, was mercenary and in the office for the money
he could get out of it.

We have had some pretty awful presidents here and there... if Trump is
trying to be the worst he has a good bit of competition.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."