![]() ![]() ![]() He led the nation forward on Civil Rights but failed on Vietnam. Johnson was named to deliver Texas electorally. Truman surprised everybody when he succeeded the great FDR and proved an able and accomplished president. Calvin Coolidge silently cooled down the Harding scandals and preserved the White House for the Republican Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Chester Arthur, the embodiment of the spoils system, was so reviled as James Garfield's successor that he had to defend himself against plotting Garfield's assassination but he reformed the civil service. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded our greatest president, sided with remnants of the Confederacy in Reconstruction. Under Cohen’s definition, the accidental presidents are John Tyler after the death of William Henry Harrison Millard Fillmore after the death of Zachary Taylor Andrew Johnson after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Chester A. He immediately sacked the entire cabinet and delayed an inevitable Civil War by standing with Henry Clay's compromise of 1850. Millard Fillmore succeeded esteemed General Zachary Taylor. ![]() ![]() He was kicked out of his party and became the first president threatened with impeachment. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. ![]()
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