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Mr.Bill

(24,280 posts)
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 03:17 PM Dec 2022

Which presidents in our history

have inherited the biggest mess when they took office?


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Joe Biden
0 (0%)
Gerald Ford
0 (0%)
LBJ
0 (0%)
FDR
7 (35%)
Abraham Lincoln
13 (65%)
Other (specify)
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Which presidents in our history (Original Post) Mr.Bill Dec 2022 OP
No Obama? Pantagruel Dec 2022 #1
Certainly an argument can be made for him. Mr.Bill Dec 2022 #2
Nothing isn't really a "mess". Nothing is just nothing. nt Shermann Dec 2022 #6
George HW Bush, Clinton, and Obama should be choices Polybius Dec 2022 #3
Well, yes, I could, Mr.Bill Dec 2022 #4
Understandable Polybius Dec 2022 #5

Mr.Bill

(24,280 posts)
2. Certainly an argument can be made for him.
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 03:30 PM
Dec 2022

After some conversation with my wife, maybe George Washington, who basically inherited nothing and had to be the first to do anything he did.

Mr.Bill

(24,280 posts)
4. Well, yes, I could,
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 04:00 PM
Dec 2022

but that's what the "other" choice is there for. I just put a few out there from what could be a list of fifty of them. The thing with Obama is I think many underestimate the weight he carried as the first black president. Everything he did would be judged under that banner. Thanks for your comment.

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