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.
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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I don't necessarily disagree. As a statesman, you get judged for how you address the key problems of your day. Pierce did reasonably well everywhere else, but his loyalty to the South, even though he was a New Hampshireman, reached, as one historian said, almost treasonous levels
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Buchanan was probably as much of a hack as Pierce, though, but that doesn't make Pierce any better.
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Buchanan was a schemer who didn't give a fig about his party. Pierce was a party man to his boots. He went to Bowdoin because his dad wouldn't send him to Dartmouth since it was a hotbed of Federalists.
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I thought Pierce at least didn't do much as President.
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Pierce was very successful at basically everything he did as President except at addressing the most important issue of the day, slavery, where his partisanship and pro-Southern loyalties created disaster after disaster. Thus he is rightly remembered as one of the worst.
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