Carter, I think, may have come the closest to being a decent human being. Possibly Adams (the first; don't know about Quincy) as well. Nobody's perfect, but it seems like they at least did the best they could with what they had. (You could argue Lincoln was, too, but Lincoln was a schemer - what he did looks good in history, but at the time he had a lot of accusations of "he let his happen so he could better get this done" which is also a charge you could level against FDR - another good president IMO ... but we're talking about good human beings, not good presidents of course).
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Date: 2012-06-01 04:07 pm (UTC)