He was before my time but the more I read the more terrible he seems.
1. Father of deficit spending.
2. Banned MG (I know what it helped, I feel it was worse in the long run)
3. Had no use for "assault rifles"
4. Continued Eisenhower's cold war
I've found many have a romanticized view of who he was. Either history hasn't been kind to him or he was a terrible president.
First off, DEMOCRATS controlled Congress during his tenure, as they had since the Great Depression. And the HOUSE is who controls spending. the REAL increase in deficit spending stemmed from the great society reforms under JOHNSON.
The cold war was a necessary evil. and if I recall, he WON that war...when the walls in Berlin came down, and the Soviet Empire crumbled.
MG?