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Philip55 · 01-20-2005, 10:42 PM

Two are tied for last place: Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

FDR because he's a total joke, and his legacy is a complete lie. He ran on a platform of reducing government spending by "not less than twenty five precent" and bashed Herbert Hoover for being the "greatest spending peacetime administration in all of history." Throughout the 1932 campaign, he accused the incumbent administration of spending and taxing too much, boosting the national debt, choking off trade, and "putting millions on the dole."

"As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely, people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject*, but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere." - FDR, 1930

* - FDR refers to Prohibition of Alcohol, passed constitutionally by Amendment 18 and enacted by the Volstead Act.

As for Lyndon Johnson, this quote just about sums it up: "In 1964 they told me that if I voted for Barry Goldwater the United States would be sunk into a large scale war with no end in sight, well guess what? I voted for Goldwater and they were right!"

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Philip55 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 142 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 4,727.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 5,227.00 Donate	Two are tied for last place: Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR because he's a total joke, and his legacy is a complete lie. He ran on a platform of reducing government spending by "not less than twenty five precent" and bashed Herbert Hoover for being the "greatest spending peacetime administration in all of history." Throughout the 1932 campaign, he accused the incumbent administration of spending and taxing too much, boosting the national debt, choking off trade, and "putting millions on the dole." "As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely, people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject, but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere." - FDR, 1930 - FDR refers to Prohibition of Alcohol, passed constitutionally by Amendment 18 and enacted by the Volstead Act. As for Lyndon Johnson, this quote just about sums it up: "In 1964 they told me that if I voted for Barry Goldwater the United States would be sunk into a large scale war with no end in sight, well guess what? I voted for Goldwater and they were right!"