Originally Posted by Skaligojurah

...Well, there's always a backwoods for people who don't like government figures. You two can live in nature, and raise a family.

There have been good presidents. FDR is a prime example of a good president. If you read up on what he did, he did a lot of active things to help US cope with the great depression. His new deal was probably as radical, and hands on, as a president will ever get to making real change for the people.

Kennedy did a lot of things, too, but, I don't feel they are particularly substantial(with the exception of race relations, but I'd hope there wouldn't be any president foolish enough to go against what MLK Jr was doing) in comparison. The man on the moon was a huge step, but really a symbolic victory than an actual tangible real world event.

As harsh as it sounds, he just kind of died at the right place at the right time. He really didn't have time to fail, and if Vietnam would have went the same way, and it inevitably was going to, he'd be just about as highly respected of a president as LBJ(who also was big on supporting racial relations, if memory serves).

In those years he did good, but no where near his legend. He was a lot like Obama very big on expectations, but I'd give him the nod over Obama, because he actually met a lot of his own.