#Andrew Johnson

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Worst US President Bracket

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[msachillelaurosfunnels]

I drew the US Presidents ⁉️⁉️

Constructive criticism is not allowed ⁉️⁉️(Because I only draw for fun lol, not mad or anything tho)

I couldn't tag anymore presidents 💔💔

[presidentialconfessions]

I think Andrew Johnson looks like a frog and so does LBJ they’re kinda twinning in that way

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

GUYS I DID IT I MADE A MEME :)))))

It's about the military reconstructionists during Johnson's presidency. Of course Johnson was like "NOOOO you can't reconstruct in the south >:,(" but Grant and Stanton were sneaky and got it done while still maintaining Johnson's trust. I added Sherman because Johnson tried to send Grant away to Mexico on a diplomatic mission so he wouldn't be able to do as much. Grant sent a letter to Sherman hinting that Johnson might appoint Sherman as acting secretary of war. Sherman came and said "NUH-UH" and then Grant got angry (everyone was shocked) at Johnson for assigning this to him because it is a diplomatic mission and it is under Seward's discretion. Meanwhile, Grant helped Congress to set up the five military districts that the South was under to keep the law in place. At this point the South was ignoring passed amendments and legislation. Violence against African Americans and white Republicans was very common and no action was being taken by state governments to administer justice. Sheridan did a great job to enforce these laws (he was in charge of Texas and Louisiana) and was supported by Grant. They did awesome and started reconstruction even though Johnson tried to stop them.

[deadpresidents]

"I regard [the President] as a foolish and stubborn man, doing even right things in a wrong way, and in a position where the evil that he does is immensely increased by the manner of his doing it."

-- Senator John Sherman of Ohio, on President Andrew Johnson, March 1, 1868.

[duusheen]

Here comes Sirena. She lives in Del Sol Valley, in her quite "modest" house with a pool and her quite "modest" husband with a juicy bank account. Andrew is now a renowned lawyer and spends his money on expensive gifts for his wife and the best preschool education for their son. She works from home on her social media and has hundreds of followers. Everyone knows Sirena Pollock 💅🏽

[generic-lab-assistant]

Starting on the president cats again :3

[tomorrowusa]

Happy Presidents Day! It's time for the results of the annual Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey

So here are the five best and five worst presidents according to the 2024 survey. BTW, Grover Cleveland only gets counted once for this survey.

Here are the historians' collective rankings for the top five and bottom five.

I'm fully in agreement with #1 and #45.

The entire 12 page article (PDF) can be read here.

Lincoln, FDR, and Washington are in an exclusive group of greatness by themselves. Trump is in an exclusive group of odium all by himself. The ghosts of James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson are undoubtedly pleased that thanks to Trump, they'll never need to worry again about being considered the worst ever POTUS.

Some other tidbits from the survey.

Jimmy Carter (#22 overall) was chosen as the most underrated POTUS.

John F. Kennedy (#10 overall) was chosen as the most overrated.

The biggest rise in the rankings was by Barack Obama who rose 9 places since 2015.

The biggest decline goes to Andrew Jackson who tumbled 12 places since 2015.

Joe Biden is at #14 overall – in between John Adams and Woodrow Wilson. Though Biden is essentially tied with Adams; both having received scores of 62.66 points.

The ratings average which Republican historians gave to Biden (47.69) was significantly higher than the ratings average which Democratic historians gave to Trump (6.66). No, I didn't make up that 666. 👿

It's only history scholars who participated in this survey. They tend to take a longer view than most of us.

My biggest disagreements are that I would have placed Gerald Ford and John Quincy Adams higher and George W. Bush much lower.

A couple of articles about the 2024 rankings...

MAGA freaks out after Fox News reports Obama in top 10 presidents — and Trump in dead last

Presidential experts rank Biden 14th among presidents in survey, Trump comes in last

[antebellumite]

three things:

they made almost all the republicans sit in the back

one seat distance between seward and sumner & davis and douglas makes me supremely sorry for whoever is sitting there (also fessenden is right before sumner, which makes me imagine that he's having a very bad time listening to the two guys snapping at each other from behind him)

apparently the way people determined which seats were Good or Bad in the senate back then was based on a. how close it was to the president's chair and b. how close it was to known popular kid william seward

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[therealadothamilton]

Presidents Day pt. 3

This one was very frustrating as ai had trouble with the beardy boys, especially Chester Arthur, with his bushy beard and mutton-chops, so I included an actual portrait of him. It also didn't do Andrew Johnson as well as I'd like, especially his hair. 🙄

[bokonomnomnom]

This is probably an appropriate time to remind all federal employees of the time U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton arrested his scab replacement and barricaded himself in his office so that President Andrew Johnson couldn’t fire him and end Reconstruction.

Trump and Musk wouldn’t try to buy you out if your job wasn’t worth it.

[presidentialconfessions]

why did political cartoonists in the 1860's make andrew johnson so chibi like

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

[deadpresidents]

"Johnson is an insolent, drunken brute in comparison with which Caligula's horse was respectable."

-- Senator Charles Sumner (R-Massachusetts) on President Andrew Johnson