The American President: The Professional Politician

[@cindymaceda2999]

Thank you, Messrs Kunhardt, for creating this amazing series. Wish our youth would watch this to learn about presidential history in order to make a good decision when they choose the next one.

[@chrisclement836]

An excellent series reminds me a little of the series about the civil war by Ken Burns

[@thattimestampguy]

0:01 Episode 4: The Professional Politician *Martin Van Buren* 0:42 "The Magician." 2:38 1821 U.S. Senator. 5:12 1832 Andrew Jackson's 2nd Term, 5:30 A Continuation of Economic Goodtimes didn't happen. 5:34 A Financial Crisis, Waves of Panic. 6:02 Establishment of A Central Treasury, The Backbone of America's Financial System. 6:19 📉Done in by Economic Downturn. 7:02 Catastrophe. The American People wanted someone who could fix things. 7:28 Van Buren beaten by The Whigs 7:58 The Pioneer of Professional Politics quietly returns to Kinderhook, New York. 8:15 8:26 No personal regret *James Buchanan* 8:36 1857 Pennsylvanian wins Election. 9:51 A Tragedy involving his engagement, Anne, who broke the engagement, then committed suicide. 10:36 Buchanan threw himself into politics. 11:07 1845 Secretary of State who hated the job. 11:30 Careful self-promotion. 12:23 Leaving The Country in Peace And Prosperity. 12:39 1857 Chasm between North and South. The Slavery Question. 13:10 Southern Sympathy. A Man Carried out of his depth by the intensity of activist emotion. 14:00 What could Buchanan have done? Some gaps are too big for politics. 14:16 ⚖️The Dred Scott Supreme Court Case 15:07 💥October 17th, 1859 John Browns’ Raid on Harper’s Fairy 16:16 Constitution 16:48 Civil War Marched Steadily Closer. 17:18 📰December 20th, 1860 Secession 17:39 A Total Failure. 18:32 Buchanan's Tragedy. 18:58 Traitor by North and South. 19:19 James Buchanan departs from The Presidency 19:34 A Lonely, Limited Man, who wore a Crown of Thorns. *Abraham Lincoln* 20:22 20:43 Ambition "A little engine which knew no rest." 21:27 Rural Indiana Upbringing. 21:40 A Strong distaste for manual labor. 22:03 "Every man is said to have his own peculiar ambition. I have no other so great as that of being so truly esteemed by my fellow man that be worthy of that esteem." 22:52 "He handled men remotely, like pieces on a chessboard." 25:38 Slavery Is Wrong! 26:06 Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 26:42 Abe Lincoln, The Railsplitter, The Humble Man of The People. 27:33 Accepting Slavery where it existed for The Sake of The Union. 28:01 The Civil War. 28:45 Biding his time on Slavery. 29:44 To Save The Union, not to Save or Destroy Slavery. I do because it Helps Save The Union. 30:33 Lincoln confronted Political Conflict. 30:48 Freedom to The Free. 31:33 Imaginativeness and Humility. 32:15 Lucrative War Contracts. 32:47 Patronage. 33:21 Gettysburg and The Second Inaugural Address. *Lincoln extends a hand to The South after The Civil War Ended.* 33:41 "No persecution, no bloody work after The War is over." 33:48 "Let them have their horses to plow with, and their guns to shoot crows with." 33:55 "We must extinguish our resentment if we expect harmony and union." 34:02 "Blood cannot restore Blood, and government should not act for revenge." 34:47 He bowed out of life at the perfect moment. "The War was won, he then disappeared." *Lyndon Banes Johnson* 35:15 After Abraham Lincoln. 35:24 Finishing Abraham Lincoln's job. *The Johnson Campaign* 38:14 Lyndon Johnson's Campaign. 39:12 1951 LBJ becomes Senate Whip. 39:37 He suffered a massive Heart Attack! 40:10 For the 1st time in his life, he was forced to slow down. *John Fitzgerald Kennedy* 40:27 He lost his 1960 Presidential Bid to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 41:03 November 22nd, 1963. The Assassination of JFK. *LBJ's Dream* 42:39 LBJ's Dreams went far. 43:01 Unconditional War on Poverty, and War on Racism. 43:22 "The Great Society." 44:00 1964 Landslide Lyndon! *LBJ's Ambition* 44:21 His Ambitions rose with the opportunity he saw. 44:54 LBJ's Winning Attitude. *LBJ's Johnson Treatment of Power* 45:43 LBJ Loved His Telephone and His Size. 46:10 "It was all too much. He didn't have enough internal confidence to moderate both his programmatic ambitions and his personal techniques." *LBJ's Downfall: The Vietnam War* 47:00 Vietnam 47:40 Death Toll Mounted. 48:32 Ho Chi Minn defeats LBJ's image. 49:14 "He failed. He tried to do too much." "There wasn't a saving moderation. It just wasn't in him." 49:58 *LBJ's Legacy* 50:16 Civil Rights, Education, Poverty Programs, 50:21 "He changed the face of American Society" 50:27 But he overreached, and in the end Politics failed him. 50:34 The War in Vietnam overwhelmed him. 50:45 Ambitious, Powerful, Driven, Political Bluster. 51:00 "Lyndon Johnson was an extremely ambitious man, who sought power, who enjoyed using it, and uh, whose greatest desire was to occupy the top job in American Political Life." 51:33 "I always felt that every job I had was really too big for me." *The Professional Politician - Concluding Statements* 51:40 Masterful Politicians, Professional Politicians 51:48 When times are good, and there is economic expansion, a Professional Politician may seem very desirable 👍🏼 51:57 But when times are bad - When economic crisis threatens - or governmental scandal breaks open - or war erupts. 52:06 🇺🇸 Then The Country demands a higher level of National Leadership, 52:20 someone who is above all, a Statesman. ☝🏼 52:25 Credits.

[@jamellfoster6029]

FDR & LBJ made huge impacts in the lives of the modern marginalized and oppressed.

[@usernamempk]

Unfortunately the government propping up people by waging war or social programs is not a sustainable model. You’re not going to like this but Trump did the best job of allowing the folks to flourish. Of course that required people who have money to make more money, so Biden puked all over that as soon as he was elected.

[@skip031890]

More like set them back and made them even more dependent than they already were. Let me guess, you're black? 🙄

[@jamellfoster6029]

@skip031890 I'm Mixed but they helped a lot of poor people by giving them opportunities to attend college and obtain professional positions (hello who wants to be uneducated working as a maid or doing hard factory labor when you can make more as a professional working smarter not harder. Duh. It's dumb to work harder)...

[@skip031890]

@@jamellfoster6029 Black people were already doing that. They had their own colleges. Ever heard of HBCU's? They didn't need FDR and LBJ to give them government handouts.

[@usernamempk]

@@skip031890 Not.

[@somarami-p9d]

Bravissimi 👍🏻👏👏👏

[@cindymaceda2999]

Nikki Haley should’ve viewed this series before running, so that she could answer that question, “What was the cause of the Civil War?”

[@baylorsailor]

Multiple causes led to the civil war.

[@baylorsailor]

Party politics has been causing issues with running the country effectively ever since! Thanks a lot Mr. Van Buren 😐

[@raspower2200]

There was a series the presidents on youtube and they remove it from KZbin

[@doreekaplan2589]

Interesting....thanksalot

[@l.a.gothro3999]

Does Ron DeSantis know about the guiding Republican principle as set down by Lincoln?

[@thomasato3771]

Like not being a liberal moron? Yes.

[@carywest9256]

By what Republican principle do you mean? How to tear the Country apart, then sew it back together to fit a personal agenda. How much do you really know about "The Benevolent Tyrant"? I paused the video at the 24:00 minute mark to bring to your attention of his representing the llinois Central Railroad. He went on to buy up land around Council Bluffs, lowa on a tip that the first railroad bridge to span the Mississippi River would be built there. This is in a book written by Thomas J. DiLorenzo titled The Real Lincoln.By the way, T.J.DeLorenzo is a born and bred Pennsylvania yankee. If you care to read that book, it will open your eyes to what sort of person Lincoln really was.

[@usernamempk]

Last I checked we aren’t in The 1860’s anymore.

[@denverman22]

It also isn’t 1860

[@denverman22]

@@carywest9256sounds like democrats and 2016 and delegitimizing Trump

[@Deb-z1w2e]

So does he . He is basically a good man, not perfect but he tries very hard.

[@kevinpoole4323]

The Great Society

[@CrisisMoon7]

Woah helicopters in 1948

[@judithgrace9850]

God is in charge.

[@curtlindberg712]

I think Johnson {lbj) was a great president. Anyone need look no further than Caro's biographies Rise To Power, Path to Power and Master of The Senate.

[@jamellfoster6029]

True.

[@MayorMcC666]

so when johnson does it, its political genius, but when Louis C.K. does it, its career ending? ok

[@ServantoftheDivine1701]

I’m sorry senator, but Lincoln is described as high pitched and it hurts me to listen.

[@superfly9173]

The title should have been “The American President’s: The Professional Liars “.

[@January.]

*Presidents

[@A_reasonable_individual42]

You clearly don't know how politics work if it took you that long.

[@superfly9173]

@@A_reasonable_individual42 Wow aren’t you are real know it all. Get a Masters Degree in History then you can tell me everything you don’t know.

[@superfly9173]

@@January. Like your wife said “ You miss the point”

[@Kinypshun]

@@January. Thank you.

[@cherryedwards8117]

Donald Trump doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as these Presidents. They loved and cared about America.

[@BIGRGreenEyes]

Let me guess..... you think Crooked Joe Biden loves America

[@thomasato3771]

Neither do any of the moron leftists you probably subscribe to.

[@adrianconnew5309]

Make America great again

[@susanbuchser-lochocki20]

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[@andrejamison2723]

You could argue that Trump has cared more about this country than the last 5 presidents.