Best/Worst Presidents

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

rocketpig said:

You read my post, right? I said I'm not an LBJ fan. I think most of his decisions were terrible. But signing that one document (the Civil Rights Act) is enough to keep him off any Worst President List, even if he wasn't the guy who sent that ball in motion.

Does that make him one of the best presidents... or just one of the luckiest ones?

It seems foolish to judge a preisdnet largely based ons something he probably couldn't of got out of the way if he tried.  I mean, how many presidents WOULDN'T of signed that bill in his place?

As a southern democrat, he could've easily tried to promote some sort of middle solution, like maybe insisting that the government had no right to tell private businesses what to do, and that only certain voting rights should be federally protected, and not had the FBI go after the KKK as strongly as he did. Hell, even without that last one, things may have remained similar in the South for some time.