I think Congress has been far too tolerant of terrible Presidents, even before Andrew Johnson. On a related note, reading about the attempts to impeach John Tyler, the first President to suffer that indignity, are amusing.
He was in the wrong job at the wrong time. He'd have been a great success as a European diplomat of that era. Sort of how Franz Joseph, Fremont, & Napoleon III were all the wrong men for their jobs at their moment.
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Meanwhile, the more I read about him, the better Franklin Pierce sounds, even if he should never be regarded as even close to great. He definitely seems better than the bottom five. It's clear that the tragedy of losing his only son to live past 4, & in such a way, hung over him
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Pierce was terrible. Personally honest & a great friend, and his Admin was way more stable & less crooked than Buchanan's, but he was a partisan hack to his bones, the least religious POTUS, hated abolitionism & collapsed his party at the peak of its power.
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