McKinley
Favorite: He gave us Teddy Roosevelt, if only to remove him from New York politics and render him harmless
Least Favorite: He was the intellectual property of big business
Roosevelt
Favorite: The Moose logo
Least Favorite: Colonialist
Taft
Favorite: His weight
Least Favorite: His later activity on the SC
Wilson
Favorite: Finally put an end to child labor for good
Least: Treatment of pacifists in 1917/18
Harding
Favorite: His rhetoric. "Progress is not (I-forget-the-word) nor palaver. It is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought, but a promise proposed." Hilarious.
Least: His politics. All of them really.
Collidge
Favorite: His personality, also his support of internationalism
Least: His disastrous politics, esp. his unwillingness to act on his internationalist convictions.
Hoover
Favorite: You have to kind of feel sorry for the guy, yes
Least: The 1928 presidential campaign.
FDR
Favorite: Fireside chats
Least: The Internment of the Japanese
Truman
Favorite: Attempts to repeal Taft-Hartley, also Fair Deal rhetoric which paved the way to the civil rights movement
Least: His choice of secretary of state
Eisenhower
Favorite: Little Rock
Least: His choice of secretary of state
JFK
Favorite: Screwing Marylin Monroe
Least: Bay of Pigs
LBJ
Favorite: So many great things it's hard to pick. Father of modern American democracy, really.
Least: Gulf of Tonkin
Nixon
Favorite: Watergate, because it brought him down
Least: Invasion of Laos and Cambodia
Ford
Favorite: Saying he knows he'll burn in hell because he pardoned Richard Nixon
Least: Pardoning Richard Nixon
Carter
Favorite: Andy Kaufman's Carter impersonation
Least: Boycotting the 1980 Olympics
Reagan
Favorite: Voting four times for FDR
Least: Well, I'm not sure how much of it is true, but there is a theory that the Reagan campaign worked to prevent a solution to the Iran hostage crisis in the final weeks of the campaign.
I'll leave out the newer ones...the pain is still too fresh.
