Showing posts with label Historians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historians. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Closing the book on the Bush era

Closing the book on the Bush era

Debate already rages over whether Bush should be regarded as the worst U.S. president. Historians will no doubt include him on any such list, but America has suffered and survived worse chief executives.

Bush, to his credit, appointed African Americans to his cabinet. That alone puts him ahead of Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and promptly vetoed the first civil rights bill, saying "this is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am president it shall be a government for white men."

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