Abraham Lincoln's PR men sleeping on the job --- again!
"No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."
--- Pres. George W. Bush
The New Yorker, January 19, 2004, p. 64.
For your handy reference, these are the presidents who did less for human rights than George W. Bush:
George Washington : 1789-1797
John Adams : 1797-1801
Thomas Jefferson : 1801-1809
James Madison : 1809-1817
James Monroe : 1817-1825
John Quincy Adams : 1825-1829
Andrew Jackson : 1829-1837
Martin van Buren : 1837-1841
William Henry Harrison : 1841-1841
John Tyler : 1841-1845
James K. Polk : 1845-1849
Zachary Taylor : 1849-1850
Millard Fillmore : 1850-1853
Franklin Pierce : 1853-1857
James Buchanan : 1857-1861
Abraham Lincoln : 1861-1865
Andrew Johnson : 1865-1869
Ulysses S. Grant : 1869-1877
Rutherford B. Hayes : 1877-1881
James A. Garfield : 1881-1881
Chester A. Arthur : 1881-1885
Grover Cleveland : 1885-1889
Benjamin Harrison : 1889-1893
Grover Cleveland : 1893-1897
William McKinley : 1897-1901
Theodore Roosevelt : 1901-1909
William H. Taft : 1909-1913
Woodrow Wilson : 1913-1921
Warren G. Harding : 1921-1923
Calvin Coolidge : 1923-1929
Herbert C. Hoover : 1929-1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 1933-1945
Harry S. Truman : 1945-1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1953-1961
John F. Kennedy : 1961-1963
Lyndon B. Johnson : 1963-1969
Richard M. Nixon : 1969-1974
Gerald Ford : 1974-1977
Jimmy Carter : 1977-1981
Ronald Reagan : 1981-1989
George Bush : 1989-1993
Bill Clinton : 1993-2001
Will he be drummed out of the Birch Society for poormouthing Reagan? And whatever happened to Exodus 20:12?
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