Not even close. James Polk by far. Added Texas, Oregon Country, and the Mexican Cession to the Union in his four years.
I was never a huge fan of Bush 41, but I do believe the assembly of the Gulf War coalition was an extraordinary feat of diplomacy. Convincing Muslims to team up with infidels to go to war with other Muslims is very difficult.
Some effective policies that were totally undone by political naivete. Did not grasp how breaking his no new taxes pledge would alienate voters and allowed a rube upstart to frame his mild recession as “the worst economy in thirty years”.
No, he wasn’t.
He screwed-up the Reagan Legacy he was handed by implementing the biggest tax increase in history.
If you’re a fan of agenda21 and the rio summit and the nwo and swearing an oath to the u.n. Then yeah. As a person, he probably was a good guy but wrong path for my liking.
Isn’t he the one that lost out to the Perjurer in Chief?
What the F?
For my money, Jimmy “Peanut Boy” Carter was the most successful one-term POTUS, because, in his utter incompetence and failure, he gave us eight years of Ronald Reagan, the greatest president of the 20th Century.
Senators and Reps should be elected/limited to one 4 year term and perhaps the office of President limited to one term of 6 years.
It would avoid all the election voting corruption and the media's bias/influence & hypocrisy I almost believe that President Trump will not run for a second term. He will fix all of our problems, as promised and want to devote more time to his family - which the media has tried to destroy. JMHO
The hagiography continues.
He raised taxes and that caused a recession and put a far-left wing judge, David Souter, on SCOTUS. His Presidency was failure as a result.
Regardless of who the “most successful one term POTUS” was, Trump will beat him by a mile.
Top five single-termers:
Polk no. 1 (engineered the contiguous continental USA, damn!)
Bush no. 2 (gotta give credit for management of the Soviet collapse; hard to stomach domestic policy)
Taft no. 3 (created the modern Republican party, saving it from becoming the progressives; also launched modern auto industry and saved the Rule of Law)
J Adams no. 4 (hard to excuse him but he did follow Washington and ceded power to Jefferson, so there)
Arthur no. 5 (he just managed things well!)
Bottom dwellers, from worst to less bad — list is a work in progress:
- Buchanan
- A. Johnson
- Jimbo
- Hoover
- Clevend’s 2nd non-consecutive term
- JQ Adams
- Pierce
- Tyler
- Fillmore
- Clevend’s 1st non-consecutive term
- Van Buren
Jeez, this is hard to do! Easier is to name the six worst presidents in general:
Barack
FDR
Wilson
Carter
Buchanan
Clintoon
(1) “Read my lips”
(2) Appointing Hard Left Supreme Court Justice David Souter
(3) His passionate support for the “Reagan Amnesty” which opened the door to massive LEGAL immigration
(4) Running the worst reelection campaign in American history