President Lincoln, President Lincoln, and President Lincoln. We are still feeling the effects of his assassination... unfortunately.
Yeah, nothing like being responsible for the death of over 1 million Americans because you want to force them to stay under your control.
Lincoln was a disaster suspending habeus corpus, instituting income tax (both against the law) taking Irish immigrants straight off the boats and putting them into the army.
One million lives that did not need to be sacrificed for his ego. At least the Soviet Union broke up peacefully. The US should have done the same.
Good call, Abraham Lincoln.