History’s Worst President?

When asked, which is not often, what I thought of this president, I usually replied, in my jaundiced, freedom-of-speech opinion, that "from what I can observe, he was the worst man ever to be president, and he was the worst president." Compared to previous presidents both on the score of integrity and accomplishment, I place the president at the bottom of both lists. Previous presidents are superior by these standards. Somebody has to be at the bottom.

What this president did by way of executive orders, by way of influence, by way of example — and this is an opinion; it could be awry — corrupted much of our public life by making what is wrong either to be tolerated or approved, something to be admired.