Posted on 12/20/2013 6:09:22 AM PST by Kaslin
I think that they believed that their vote demonstrated the end of racism, and it might effected such a demonstration, if the object of their vote had been more in character like, say, Condoleezza Rice, or Jackie Robinson, or any of those often touted on the right, such as Ben Carson.
Obama’s most famous accomplishment is that he has
remained unimpeached for over five years.
Which leads to a curiosity: VPs who become President by dint of succession have had about a 50/50 chance of being either successful or unsuccessful. Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford were unsuccessful as Presidents, while John Tyler, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry Truman were fairly to very successful--though Roosevelt's and Truman's successes were primarily in foreign policy rather than domestic issues.
The greatest thing LBJ did as President was to stand before TV cameras and spare us a final term of which he was eligible to run. Yet nearly 50 years later, his "Great Society" programs (coupled with Ted Kennedy's 1965 immigration act) have changed this country probably more-so than the actions of any President before or since.
If our country is today what LBJ envisioned when he signed these programs into law, than by all measures he had a very successful Presidency.
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