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Scholars Ranks Top Ten Presidential Mistakes




Presidents have made their share of egregious errors, but now there's a list ranking the worst. A survey organized by the University of Louisville lists President James Buchanan as being responsible for the biggest mistake. He tops the list for failing to avoid the Civil War. Bill Clinton's relations with an intern lands at number ten. Scholars say that incident probably affected Clinton's presidency more than it did American history. Andrew Johnson's decision to oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks ranks second and Lyndon Johnson takes the number three spot for allowing the Vietnam War to intensify. Other notables include Richard Nixon's Watergate cover-up -- fifth -- and John F. Kennedy is eighth for allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion. That led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Here are the top 10 presidential errors:1: James Buchanan's failure to aver the Civil War. 2: Andrew Johnson's decision just after the Civil War to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery. 3: Lyndon Johnson's allowing the Vietnam War to intensify. 4: Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. 5: Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up. 6: James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain. 7: Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. 8: John F. Kennedy's allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua. 10: Bill Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Mark Raines, News Director Created: 2/18/2006 7:05:14 PMUpdated: 2/18/2006 7:05:46 PM
I came across this article the other day and it got me thinking(my wife tells me that I should be careful in doing this because it could over tax my mind)anyhow I remembered a book I had read some fifty years ago: Man-Real And Ideal by Edwin Grant Conklin, who said that although man had progressed scientifically he had not progressed intellectuality in the last 2000 years. Then I remembered about reading this some years ago:
Cicero Was Right ~ -
More than 2,OOO years ago, Cicero listed the following six mistakes of man:1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others.2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed,3. Insisting that a thing is Impossible because we cannot accomplish it.4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences,5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do. signed Zarc