Which died-in-office presidents would approve their successor's presidency?

[President Johnson]

If each of the eight presidents who died in office could come back and take a look at their vice president and successor's presidency, how would they think about it?


My thoughts:

William Henry Harrison would not approve John Tyler's presidency. He was basically the opposite and only put on the ticket because of the South. Tyler, in Jackson's tradition, vetoed a bill to reestablish the national bank that Andrew Jackson drew out of business.

Zachary Tylor was opposed to the Compromise of 1850, and therefore he would not approve Millard Fillmore's presidency in retrospect.

Abraham Lincoln would of course not like how Andrew Johnson's tenure went, for obvious reasons. However, I think he would also not like the Radical Republicans too much because he favored humility towards to former Confederacy. Many Radical Republicans treated the South like an conquered region, Uncle Abe still saw them as his fellow countrymen. I think he would blame Johnson's incompetence and the Radicals equally.

A tough call to make on John Garfield. I think he would be ok with Chet Arthur's presidency due to Civil Service Reform and the modernization of the Navy.

William McKinley would approve Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy, but not so much his domestic policies. McKinley was essentially a puppet of the big industrials and TR sought to regulate business and break up the trusts.

Warren Harding would be supportive of Calvin Coolidge's presidency. Both were in favor of laisez-faire policies and isolationists.

Franklin Roosevelt would also largely approve Harry Truman's presidency. Truman was a New Deal Democrat and governed as such; the limited number of legislative successes in domestic policy was not Truman's fault. The Cold War is difficult to tell, but it is known that FDR begun to change his views on Stalin in the closing days of his life. Hard to judge is the question whether he would have thrown the Atomic bomb.

Jack Kennedy would certainly like Lyndon Johnson's domestic policies. Especially on civil rights and other social programs; including the 1964 tax cut JFK first proposed. Vietnam is difficult to tell since there are two different opinion of experts. Some argue he would have left Vietnam, others say it his war in the first place and he would have never allowed Hanoi to take over the South. However, JFK would probably say that LBJ was too ineffective and he should have gone all in or all out.

[OSR stands with Israel]

FDR definitely would have dropped the bomb since he was the President which oversaw the Manhatten Project in the first place. Also he under his presidency the firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden took place along with many more firebombings of other cities.

[MillennialModerate]

If each of the eight presidents who died in office could come back and take a look at their vice president and successor's presidency, how would they think about it?


My thoughts:

William Henry Harrison would not approve John Tyler's presidency. He was basically the opposite and only put on the ticket because of the South. Tyler, in Jackson's tradition, vetoed a bill to reestablish the national bank that Andrew Jackson drew out of business.

Zachary Tylor was opposed to the Compromise of 1850, and therefore he would not approve Millard Fillmore's presidency in retrospect.

Abraham Lincoln would of course not like how Andrew Johnson's tenure went, for obvious reasons. However, I think he would also not like the Radical Republicans too much because he favored humility towards to former Confederacy. Many Radical Republicans treated the South like an conquered region, Uncle Abe still saw them as his fellow countrymen. I think he would blame Johnson's incompetence and the Radicals equally.

A tough call to make on John Garfield. I think he would be ok with Chet Arthur's presidency due to Civil Service Reform and the modernization of the Navy.

William McKinley would approve Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy, but not so much his domestic policies. McKinley was essentially a puppet of the big industrials and TR sought to regulate business and break up the trusts.

Warren Harding would be supportive of Calvin Coolidge's presidency. Both were in favor of laisez-faire policies and isolationists.

Franklin Roosevelt would also largely approve Harry Truman's presidency. Truman was a New Deal Democrat and governed as such; the limited number of legislative successes in domestic policy was not Truman's fault. The Cold War is difficult to tell, but it is known that FDR begun to change his views on Stalin in the closing days of his life. Hard to judge is the question whether he would have thrown the Atomic bomb.

Jack Kennedy would certainly like Lyndon Johnson's domestic policies. Especially on civil rights and other social programs; including the 1964 tax cut JFK first proposed. Vietnam is difficult to tell since there are two different opinion of experts. Some argue he would have left Vietnam, others say it his war in the first place and he would have never allowed Hanoi to take over the South. However, JFK would probably say that LBJ was too ineffective and he should have gone all in or all out.

I think FDR would surely have dropped the bomb.

And while JFK would love the domestic policies, he would be disgusted with Vietnam and the way it tore apart the country. America is in a golden age if JFK lives, not the turmoil of Vietnam / MLK / RFK / Watergate / Iran.

[The Mikado]

FDR would've been totally happy with Truman's conduct in WWII and the immediate aftermath. The further away you get, the more doubtful I am. Like, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_steel_strike would have probably horrified Roosevelt.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

William McKinely-Teddy Roosevelt, although he was a conservative, he wasn't a conservative in today's standards, the economic policies and Panama Canal was helpful for Trade

Harding-Coolidge, same as McKinley and Roosevelt, although a conservative, he wasn't a strident conservative and big business policies towards the automobile industry was helpful

FDR-Truman, wouldn't have approved of his Korea performance, approved of his end of WWII policies and would of dropped bomb on Japan, to end WWII, Japan wasn't giving in

JFK-LBJ Thurgood Marshall was appointed to SCOTUS, but LBJ's Vietnam wasn't helpful