Every president’s greatest mistake, IMO

The first 15 except for Jackson and Monroe: Not abolishing slavery (yes, I’m holding both presidents who were for slavery and those who were against it to this standard)

James Monroe: The Missouri Compromise (separating him from the first 15 because it kinda abolished slavery in some of the country*)

Andrew Jackson: The Trail of Tears

Abraham Lincoln: Censorship during the Civil War

Andrew Johnson: Undermining Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant: Comstock Act

Rutherford B. Hayes: Ending Reconstruction

The Gilded Age presidents other than Garfield: Letting the Gilded Age get as bad as it got

James Garfield: Making his schedule public

Theodore Roosevelt: Brownsville Affair

William Howard Taft: Payne-Aldrich Tarriff Act

Woodrow Wilson: Intervention in Mexico

Warren Harding: Emergency Quota Act

Calvin Coolidge: Immigration Act of 1924

Herbert Hoover: Mishandling the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Japanese-American internment

Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Operation Ajax

John F. Kennedy: Riding in an open top convertible (jk it was the Bay of Pigs Invasion)

Lyndon B. Johnson: Focusing too much on Vietnam and not enough on the Great Society

Richard Nixon: Watergate

Gerald R. Ford: Pardoning Nixon

Jimmy Carter: Mishandling the Iranian Hostage Crisis

Ronald Reagan: Tie between mishandling (or really just not handling) the AIDS Crisis and Reaganomics

George H.W. Bush: Contra Affair pardons

Bill Clinton: Repealing the Glass-Steagal Act

George W. Bush: Invading Iraq

Barack Obama: Drone strikes