GDG- a grave question to be considered

[Chet Diestel]

 Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:

   Oh I do not know -- there have been some competitors... :>)
   But definitely within the time frame that the GDG covers, there is no 
doubt about Buchanan's status!
   Take care,
    Bob

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  GDG Member Robert Lawrence Contributes:

    IMO Buchanan was the worst President in the History of the United 
States.

  Ah, what a political hat-trick of nonentities so deserving of their 
nonentity was this nation blessed with in the years preceding the war:  And 
Millard Fillmore begat Franklin Pierce and Pierce begat James Buchanan and 
Buchanan begat our greatest national calamity.
   I agree that Buchanan, mostly through sins of omission rather than 
commission,  was the worse of a bad lot of presidents and far outstrips 
Grant, as another member labeled Buchanan's equal on the bottom rung of 
commanders-in-chief. Grant was not a good chief executive, but nothing he 
did --- or didn't do, for that matter --- led to the greatest effusion of 
blood in the nation's history.
  Or course, the award for the greatest presidential non-entity, IMHO,  has 
to go to Pierce, after all he was passed over for re-nomination by his own 
party in favor of Buchanan, whose only qualification for being a 
presidential nominee seemed to be that no one could find anything at any 
time or place he ever said about slavery.
    With regards,
       Chet