Ken Burns didn’t make up 10 hours of this shit. Lincoln really won the war. The USA is still here and includes all the states that seceded, and because they lost, we don’t have slavery anymore.
Read moreFour Presidents Who Got Shit Done: George Washington.
America is the world’s first successful free republic, all whose leaders are democratically elected by the people (well, just the land-owning white males at first). You can thank George Washington.
Read moreFour Presidents Who Got Shit Done: Theodore Roosevelt.
He was a Republican — though modern Republicans might be revolted at his anti-corporation, pro-environment, pro-regulation, and pro-union stances.
Read moreFour Presidents Who Got Shit Done: James K. Polk.
In just four years, with a Congress and a country that was as deeply divided as it gets (the Civil War was only 12 years away), James K. Polk got shit done. All of it.
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