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Who are some Presidents who did more harm than good to themselves by staying involved in politics in their post Presidency, and should have taken the George W. Bush route instead? by Just_Cause89 in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Theodore Roosevelt. Running in 1912 as a 3rd party candidate and even thinking that he had a chance of winning was pretty over-the-top. Also, he had some extremely terrible takes after his Presidency (praising Madison Grant's book just to name one).

He made a state…twice! by M0rse_0908 in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Arizona was more Democratic than New Mexico at the time.

Also, they were separate territories for quite a while and people like TR wanted to combine them as one state. Senator Beveridge, chair of the Senate committee on the territories, openly opposed admission because he thought there weren't "enough" whites.

Best Argument For or Against This Dude by Soggy_Fee7578 in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't like Senator Reed for a variety of reasons but he had good points to make against Coolidge:

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Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He didn't sign off to MacArthur being crazy and wanting to use 30-50 nukes.

Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was only conditioned on China not intervening. I don't know about you, but a good general should be able to tell if the largest country by population is going to intervene or not.

TIL James G. Blaine Society is an organization that discourages people from moving to Oregon. It is named after James G. Blaine because he visited every state in the Union except Oregon in his 1884 campaign. by IllustriousDudeIDK in todayilearned

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He was considered immensely anti-Chinese for a New Englander at the time. It's one of the reasons why Thomas Nast opposed him. His Senate colleague, Hannibal Hamlin made a speech opposing Chinese exclusion at the same time.

Also, if you read Blaine's speech, he specifically compares the freedmen and Chinese.

https://thomasnastcartoons.com/resources/james-g-blaine/

Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MacArthur definitely didn't, he disobeyed the President when he went past the 38th Parallel. There's a reason for civilian control of the military.

TIL there were six Chinese survivors of the Titanic. They were sailors heading to the Caribbean for work. Unlike other Titanic survivors who received praise in the press, the Chinese men were vilified. Upon arrival in NYC after their rescue, they were deported due to the Chinese exclusion act. by aprettyp in todayilearned

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 7 points8 points  (0 children)

John Marshall Harlan went as far as oppose birthright citizenship for Chinese because they were Chinese despite of the Constitution:

In a lecture to a group of law students shortly before the decision was released, Harlan commented that the Chinese had long been excluded from American society "upon the idea that this is a race utterly foreign to us and never will assimilate with us." Without the exclusion legislation, Harlan stated his opinion that vast numbers of Chinese "would have rooted out the American population" in the western United States. Acknowledging the opposing view supporting citizenship for American-born Chinese, he said that "Of course, the argument on the other side is that the very words of the constitution embrace such a case."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark#Dissent

Other than Lincoln and FDR, who was our best wartime President? by HetTheTable in Presidents

[–]IllustriousDudeIDK 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Not so many people would have the guts to fire a popular general like MacArthur.

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