LBJ and Carter Should Salvage Franklin Pierce's Place in History

LBJ and Carter Should Salvage Franklin Pierce's Place in History

No, Franklin Pierce was not the worst president in American History.

That dishonor belongs to either Lyndon Johnson or Jimmy Carter. Lyndon Johnson cooked up the Tonkin Gulf incident to embroil the United States in the Vietnam War, and then obstructed the military when they tried to win it.

Jimmy Carter was, well Jimmy Carter. Inept, unfocused, cowardly, unprincipled and hopelessly naive.