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>What about Buchanan? or Fillmore? or some of the other absolute non-entities in the past?
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>From what I recall of my undergrad studies, US Grant was about as bad you could get.
Vin,
I think in President Grant's case it was not so much a matter of him being personally 'bad' but that he had essentially no oversight of those he placed in his administration and they were doozies.
I tend to think in his case that he drank to escape the horrors of the war he so successfully waged. The Civil War was awfully brutal. Not an excuse mind you but perhaps some understanding.
Nonetheless it was inexcuseable what happened. Kind of like Clinton. <g>
Best,
DD
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