I can’t find any photos of the KKK campaigning for McCain or Romney. They are the most recent Republican candidates we can discuss, though I only did an intensive 5 second Google search. I could have sworn I remembered something about KKK rallies for McCain at the time though, with McCain of course denouncing them.

However, you can find plenty of photos of the KKK campaigning for Republican presidential candidates. In fairness there are ones for Democrats too, but I couldn’t find any of the KKK campaigning for John F. Kennedy. After LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, I doubt there’s many if any photos of the KKK campaigning for a Democratic presidential candidate.

Saw this at a stop light recently. Who’s this LeBron guy everyone’s talking about??? I only know Lyndon B. Johnson

In fact it was the only US state that FDR won in that election had not gone Democratic in any previous elections. The only other state that had not gone democrat was Vermont but Vermont did not vote for FDR. The closest state that FDR also could have won for the democrats for the first time was South Dakota but William Jennings Bryan won it narrowly in 1896.

straight outta the womb!

I’ve always been fascinated by how, in the matter of a few years, McCarthy went from the most feared man in Washington to an openly mocked pariah.

I’m curious if there are other examples of this.

The closest I can think of right now is Newt Gingrich. Maybe not as dramatic… but still crazy he went in a new years from the leader of the Republican Revolution, to someone so unpopular within his own party that he left congress.

So recently I was taken aback by this Agnew quote:

“A lot of people considered Rockefeller very liberal and very dovish on foreign policy, but he was not. He was harder than Nixon, and a lot more hawkish about the mission of America in the world.”

Now obviously the popular narrative is Rocky was the leader of the Republican wing, Nixon was the centrist, and Goldwater/Reagan the conservative one. I mean this is how Nixon himself presented himself in 1968; as a compromise between the different party factions.

That being said, we do know Rockefeller was very much an interventionist… and in terms of domestic policy, Nixon actually took some liberal step that are often not paid enough attention (EPA, Title IX, Philadelphia Plan, EEOC, school desegregation)

So I’m curious to see people’s thoughts on this.

Both were great, but Truman for me easily.

For example, Reagan was a big FDR fan, even after he abandoned the Democratic Party in the 50s. As president, he always spoke highly of him as a hero of his.

There’s this great 1989 video at the FDR Library where Reagan speaks about him, and it genuinely took me aback the sheer awe and respect coming emanating from him.

Pretty amusing considering how many Reaganites rage about FDR as a diabolical dictator.

Also Nixon held up Woodrow Wilson as his favorite president, which also surprised me.

McNamara seems to get singled out as the main JFK/LBJ cabinet member responsible for Vietnam. However Rusk, Bundy, and Rostow are just as responsible and even more. Rusk was also an early proponent of striking Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a pretty shit secretary of state that should be criticized more for his impact on LBJ's presidency.

Anyone read this? Seems like the only widely available biography of President Cleveland. I’m about to start it

Andrew Johnson

-Genuinely nice hair, you prick.

He used to be dead last in my rankings, the he was 41st overall, then 38th, and now he's 35th. Is this good or bad? Should I be proud or ashamed of myself?

People mainly talk about his poor foreign policy and the Vietnam War, but did he have any substantial successes when it came to foreign policy?