Favorite and least favorite thing about all 20th century presidents + Bush

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

McKinley
Favorite: He gave us Teddy Roosevelt
Least Favorite: He was a whore of big business

Roosevelt
Favorite: Trust busting
Least Favorite: too hawkish

Taft
Favorite: um....
Least Favorite: Tried to undo Teddy's work and restore the Gilded Age

Wilson
Favorite: Finally put an end to child labor for good
Least: Espionage and Sedition Acts + Palmer Raids

Harding
Favorite: He pardoned Eugene Debs
Least: the scandals

Collidge
Favorite: His personality
Least: His hands off the economy

Hoover
Favorite: He was personally a good guy
Least: Smoot-Hawley

FDR
Favorite: He tried to turn the country into a new socialist state
Least: The Internment of the Japanese

Truman
Favorite: He voted Taft-Hartley
Least: He really botched up the Korean War

Eisenhower
Favorite: His actions against Orval Faubus
Least: Many of the actions of his first Sec. of State, John Foster Dulles

JFK
Favorite: Ending the Cuban Missile Crisis
Least: Bay of Pigs

LBJ
Favorite: Great Society
Least: Just saying Vietnam is a little too broad, so I'll say the Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Nixon
Favorite: Establishment of the EPA and most of his increases of funding to domestic projects
Least: I don't really care about Watergate all that much actually. The Pinochet coup.

Ford
Favorite: John Paul Stevens
Least: Giving Suharto the go ahead to invade East Timor

Carter
Favorite: His much better approach to foreign policy
Least: The exception to that: Boycotting the 1980 Olympics

Reagan
Favorite: Um..."Tear down this wall!" was a good line
Least: Iran Contra

George H.W. Bush
Favorite: He had the foresight not to invade Iraq and knew what would happen. Plus Souter
Least: His failure of a domestic agenda

Clinton
Favorite: 8 years of peace and prosperity.
Least: NAFTA

George W. Bush
Favorite: His first term was just one big disaster and I except the second to be no different, but I do like the idea of Social Security reform even though I don't like exactly how he's going about it so the start isn't too bad. Plus Do Not Call
Least: I'm not going to even bother to try to choose....

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Harding
Least: His politics. All of them really.

actually while most of them were bad, he was probably the best president we had up to that point on racial issues. During a campaign stop he gave a strong speech against lynching. He didn't do anything as president in that area though.