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Below average yes. Worst of all time no. For all the evils of American history including all sorts and quantities of deaths, there was a president egging them on, perpetrating them himself, or at the least looking away.
Agreed on the last sentence, but most of those guys also did a lot of positive things. Like Nixon did some terrible things, and likely would have been removed from office if he hadn't resigned, but he also negotiated significant arms reductions with the Soviet Union, pulled out of Vietnam, negotiated trade with China, and other positive things. I think historians do some offsetting of good and bad. Trump didn't have a lot of good. I'm not sure Andrew Jackson has much good to balance his significant atrocities, but if be okay with him in last place and Trump next.
You might want to read more about this. He prolonged the war 6 more years. More of war happened under him than the previous admins combined.
Oh, oops, that's a bad screw up on my part. I remember that he was pretty vocal about wanting to pull out, but I was pretty young and apparently my history is poor. Thanks for the clarification, I'll make a correction.
My broader point stands though: some of the presidents who did bad things also did good things, and I think historians weigh both.
Edit: reading about it more, in not sure my original post was too far off. He did work pretty hard to end it and personally believed it had to be ended and quickly. Yes, he was thwarted for some time, and he did some pretty awful things in the name of ending it. He got an agreement signed and pulled US troops out, but the Vietnamese didn't abide by the agreement and kept fighting. So I guess what I remembered is he ended it for the US. I said he pulled out, not that he ended the war.