Bob DeLacy Jr.’s Reviews > Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden > Status Update

RONALD REAGAN I remember his speech on the Iran Contra thing. He didn't believe he did it, but facts said otherwise. Perhaps altzeimers was setting in.
GEORGE H.W.BUSH I thought he handled Operation Desert Storm well.
BILL CLINTON Thought he was ok as president. Shaking hands with JFK when he was young was cool. And didn't know Hillary was a Republican in her youth 😳.

Eisenhower was a commander and chief. Kennedy was an idealist with flaws. And Johnson had Vietnam. Sad because I liked his Great Society idea.

HOOVER,FDR AND TRUMAN-Like Hoover, I don't always agree with government handouts. But dealing with the Depression he had to use the power of the government to help. Ignoring it didn't help. Nor did it give him a decent presidency.
FDR dealt with a lot, but I agree America emerged stronger due to his leadership.
Truman didn't like the press either. I wonder why.

Woodrow Wilson is having a stroke in White House I read before. But I didn't know he had lost a wife before. His 2nd wife kept the news of his stroke from the nation.
Warren Harding was a scandal himself.
Calvin Coolidge didn't run a 2nd term because he lost a son. Felt bad for him.

Interesting Theodore Roosevelt didn't like being called Teddy. But Teddy Bear 🧸 came to be during his term.
President Taft started the 7th inning g stretch.🙂⚾️.
Taft drank a lot of coffee thru his working hours. Says something to me.

Grover Cleveland not a very good president. His surgery that serious could of told the people but hid it for the sake of the presidency.
Benjamin Harrison was no better.

Reading 📚 about President Garfields assassination. It's shocking even after Lincolns death security for the president wasn't increased. His assassin was like the others. Boasting, he did it for the country. Idiot.
Chester Arthur felt bad about him losing his wife. But I was surprised he loved becoming vice-president when everyone else hated it. He didn't like the presidency. I was glad not a lot happened.

Read thru the presidencies of Lincoln to Grant.
Former president Franklin Pierce, who didn't agree with Lincolns policies, did share a nice letter after Lincolns lost Willie. For both suffered great loss. It was comforting he reached out like that.
ANDREW JOHNSON 1st president to be impeached. His trying to reconstruct the nation was not bringing it together.Grant changed that. Plus, he kicked KKKs ass.

Reading the train accident that killed his only son left on way to Washington for President-elect Pierce was tragic to read.Felt bad for him and wife.Don't know how he could go on and deal with the presidency but he felt God was punishing him.He took oath of office on a law book instead of a Bible,but in his hour of grieve he told the nation,"You have summoned me in my weakness.You must sustain me by your strength."

It's sad that James Polk is all but forgotten. Andrew Jackson's home is visited more than his. Died at such young age 53. It seemed he did in his one term, but his last words to his wife were special."I love you, Sarah. For all eternity. I love you. "
The Cholea pandemic was bad and killed Zachary Taylor, who only had a year and a half in his presidency.