If not for Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan would easily rank as America's worst president. From his tacit support for southern slave owners to his failure to exert any kind of executive leadership on the eve of the civil war, Buchanan failed to live up to the expectations of the presidency, which not only doomed his legacy but the nation as well.

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