The last [good] President

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Different people on this board (and throughout the world) have shown severe disapproval -- and some have expressed great support for the presidents of our current and past time. I'm very curious to see who you (those who discuss politics and the presidency) think was that last "good" president of the United States. For the most part I will leave it up to you to decide what a "good" president is; but think of someone with high morals, a show of care for the people, someone who you would re-elect for a second term.

Who was the last "good" president, and why?

I have talked to quite a few people who think Bill Clinton--despite some of the scrutiny surrounding his personal life--was actually a pretty good president. What do you think..

Maybe John F. Kennedy?
 
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To make a long story short, Kennedy started off as a bad guy like any typical president. He's one of the reasons why we went into Nam which was a very bad call.

But he later started leaning towards "the people" after fiding out what goes on behind closed doors in our government.
He started opposing people left and right, and later stepped on the toes of the "elite". That's when he went too far and thus was killed right before he was gonna take the Fed out of business.
 
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John F. Kennedy was arguably one of the most pro-business, pro-growth, fiscally conservative presidents we have ever had.

Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, bay of pigs.

On Civil Rights, JFK conducted a policy that was virtually a carbon copy of the one Dwight Eisenhower carried out.
JFK and RFK would agree with J. Edgar Hoover that Martin Luther King needed to be wiretapped.

Kennedy presided over the largest and most rapid military expansion in America's peacetime history, which cost $17 billion in additional appropriations.