As a historian you can't make that claim as truth at 0.57. There's speculation, it might even seem to be so, but the guy didn't declared it himself and that's what counts.

@madamegeorge7258

Жыл бұрын

Forsooth. Doesn't matter at all obviously. But not proven.

0:59 - well, that's a bold claim. We don't really know if he actually was, we'll never know. It was 150 years ago. 1:55 - Oh *heck* nm

@rcalphonse2701

4 жыл бұрын

Holy fucking shit...wooing man

@unagjac890

4 жыл бұрын

@@rcalphonse2701 that's why I said nm at 1:55. Maybe they were just REALLY REALLY good friends tho? Maybe by wooing he just meant a nice hang out.

@Jayviolikesspyro

3 жыл бұрын

CUSS I HATE THIS U KNOW KIDS WATCH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

@unagjac890

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jayviolikesspyro oh my bad I re-wrote the comment

@markcouch4235

2 жыл бұрын

Omg they were roommates

1:38 "it was unclear who was to be on the top of the ticket", Probably whoever was on top in bed.

James Buchanan was more concerned about the cannon in his Secratary of State's pants then the cannons aimed at Fort Sumter.

^Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy'' ....nineteenth century humour affecting me

"Unclear who was to be on the top of the ticket, eh?" I see what you did there...

When in danger or in doubt,run in circles scream and shout!

First good video I could find on the guy, thank you

I didn't realize that he was gay. Never heard that before. That final message to Congress that you pointed out makes me respect him even less than I did before. Basically blaming the North for the bad behavior of the South.

@cooldudecs

2 жыл бұрын

He wasn’t gay ... modern propaganda

@MaximusR93

2 жыл бұрын

@@cooldudecs 1:50, how do you refute this letter

@kayzeaza

2 жыл бұрын

@@cooldudecs I mean it wouldn’t just be modern propaganda because people said it about him when he was alive! You obviously arnt that much of a ‘thinking man’ hahah

@noonespecial9704

Жыл бұрын

​@@kayzeaza Not so much propaganda, more so a modern thought of what those words are to be interpreted. That being said it is quite suspicious of him being the ONLY bachelor president and the letter at 1:55 can make a convincing argument that he may as well been the first homosexual president in American History! If more evidence comes out, I'll hop on that train! Coming from a student of history and a strong Libertarian.

@kayzeaza

Жыл бұрын

@@noonespecial9704 no it is propaganda!

What was President Buchanan's stand with Mexico?..In our Mexican history books shows that Buchanan's goverment was looking to adquire all Baja California land but this treaty was denied by northern senators cus it would be more slavery farming land added to the union.

professor dave talks about history too??? coolest prof

Ugh you know what i just... Cant. With these videos anymore

"Last Democrat to be elected after a previous Democratic Administration"? What about Truman and LBJ?

@ProfessorDaveExplains

4 жыл бұрын

They both initially ascended upon the death of the president.

@MegaMr46

4 жыл бұрын

Professor Dave Explains that’s correct, one had died while in office and the other had been assassinated.

@cliveadleyliong245

2 жыл бұрын

The first to be assasinated is Abraham Lincoln he was the 16th us president

@ryanmyers3118

Жыл бұрын

for Truman and lbj they become president because the president before them had died then ran for president once that term was over

Thanks master ✍🙏😍😍💝💜👁🤳

Lol "Rabble, rabble" xD

I don't see how james is to blame though. The war was imminent no matter what he would have done.

@emc448

4 жыл бұрын

He should have done something.

@WolfofAsia012

4 жыл бұрын

true

@szimbazsununnu1088

3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! Finally someone says the war was imminent no matter what.

@Stephen-gi1rx

2 жыл бұрын

@EmMC: Like what:?

@kayzeaza

2 жыл бұрын

Nah he was a Northerner who loved the South. Wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time. These pre civil war presidents were so lazy

FDR: Democrat. Truman: Democrat. Kennedy and Johnson, too.

@moach57

3 жыл бұрын

Yea that comment by him is pretty odd.

@markcouch4235

2 жыл бұрын

Not elected though, but because of death

@KingZorLink21

2 жыл бұрын

U forgot Eisenhower

@logan9758

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingZorLink21 Eisenhower was a republican

@KingZorLink21

2 жыл бұрын

@@logan9758 I said that because he skipped Eisenhower

Dude reminds me of Mike from all in the family ☺️

From what looked up, despite Trump's lack of reaction to the COVID crisis and everything else he was accused of, Buchanan once regain his slot as the worse as I had always known. Like I said many times before, it takes more than dividing the nation and almost causing civil war to be the worse, you actually have to succeed in actually causing succession of states destroying the US as it is and possibly causing another civil war to dethrone Buchanan permantently as the worse.

@fshoaps

2 жыл бұрын

There wasn’t “almost a civil war” under Donald Trump. Let’s not be so theatrical , please?

@Talisguy

Жыл бұрын

Also, Trump's time in the White House may not be over yet. I don't think he'll pull a Grover Cleveland and get a second term, but it's not impossible. You can't judge whether Trump has had a worse long-term effect than Buchanan when we might not even be done with him yet. I do expect him to hang out in the bottom five of historical POTUS rankings for a long time, though.

@ashleighstratmann7783

Жыл бұрын

@@Talisguy Yeah, as much as I don't approve the guy, Trump did boost the economy until COVID hit. And the status of the economy often affects a president's rankings. We had many presidents that were in office during the best and worse economic times to who had a roll in it to say otherwise: Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, Coolidge, Hoover, and even FDR (as his rank was partly because of his work during the Great Depression) just to name some.

@Talisguy

Жыл бұрын

@@ashleighstratmann7783 Most economists don't think he *did* boost the economy as much as he coasted on an already existing upward trend - there's a fair amount of evidence that his impact on the economy was at best neutral and at worst detrimental. It's a lie he told, not something backed up by reality.

@noonespecial9704

Жыл бұрын

​@@Talisguy I would argue that it was at best a boot and at worst a neutral affect. Unemployment before Covid was at an all time low, thanks to his many actions on top of the hard work of the Obama Administration. I would say that Trump is more a likeness to Herbert Hoover, a president who's good during times of stability, but terrible in times of tragedy. And that's also to bring up the Biden's administration's handling of the Covid Crisis, vaccines already being distributed by the time of the 2020 election as well as a slight increase in the economy. Then the Biden Administration took the troops out of Afghanistan, good idea but terrible execution, and fumbled what should have been a simple economic recovery. Biden is someone of inaction, but Trump is really not that much better :/

Buchanan County Virginia was named after this guy and lives upto the reputation of being an utter failure.

Chad appeasement method. Pander to everyone. Appease no one.

1:00 Not actually confirmed. It’s merely suspected, but there isn’t any concrete proof going either way

@Mycorruptedmind

10 ай бұрын

Yea that’s what he said

Modern people: Trump's the worst president! Lincoln: Hold my Civil War

@redjirachi1

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobespierreThePoof Top 10 worst, but not Top 5 worst.

@Rayzersword

2 жыл бұрын

All southerners at the time: we're a bunch of dirty traitors who deserve to be killed.

@ivoryas1696

Жыл бұрын

@@redjirachi1 Worse than Johnson, Buchanan, _and_ grant? I honestly didn't even think Trump was bottom five excluding his P.R and diplomacy, but how is Lincoln even bottom ten?

i’m related to him

@FemboyBlake

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

I thought it was bookanan.

You completely forgot about one of his worst actions known as the Utah War. AKA the reason the military was a massive wreck.

@happyraccoon4791

4 жыл бұрын

The Utah War, a Mormon fantasy as no shots were fired and no one killed. Except at Mountain Meadows where the Mormons murdered 120+ unarmed, mostly women and children.

He’s my great grandfather

@seong99

3 жыл бұрын

Your great grandfather was a dick

@szimbazsununnu1088

3 жыл бұрын

@Anime geek How do you know he's lying? He could be his great-grandkid.

@love_evann

2 жыл бұрын

@Monkey D. Luffy he wasn’t my great grand father he was like my great great great great great grandfather it was my grandmas grandmas grandpas uncles dad

What is the time there, Mr Dave

@ProfessorDaveExplains

5 жыл бұрын

845 am!

@mudassirhashmi9524

5 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains It is 9:15 pm here in INDIA, REALLY I LOVED YOUR VIDEOS TOO MUCH

@JustSal69

5 жыл бұрын

im from india as well.. love your videos prof. dave!

If President Donald Trump were to lose re-election, would he be lower than Buchanan or above both him and Andrew Johnson?

@MegaMr46

3 жыл бұрын

@doomscyte at least he done a couple of positives 1. Extended the 9/11 victim’s compensation 2. Making Animal Abuse a federal crime. Although you do have a point.

@kingericson490

3 жыл бұрын

@@MegaMr46 and peace in the mid east, and tough on china, got us out of the middle east

@szimbazsununnu1088

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingericson490 And: - lowering unemployment - making the most progress with North Korea - lowering our fuel prices by scolding OPEC

@allen_the_king40848

2 жыл бұрын

Well now that Biden is president, historians are only ranking him slightly above both of them. Imo I think he’s just as bad if not WORSE in some aspects than both combined (remember Johnson got impeached once, not twice!) But the fact historians are putting Trump in the bottom 5 of all US presidents for the most part is saying a lot.

Andrew Jackson being homophobic is the most on brand thing in history

Probably the best president of all time.

@matthewhedrichjr.5445

4 ай бұрын

He’s the worst ever to serve because he’s so stubborn and arrogant of himself to stop secession and keep the likes of this nation together. He’s also called a Do Nothing Doughface because of his support to the south

Is Lincoln gei too for sharing a bed with Speed? Thanks for front-loading with the BS so I know to go elsewhere.

@ProfessorDaveExplains

5 ай бұрын

There's no "BS" here, sweetie. Sorry.

Invoking President Polk as a character witness against President Buchanan was probably not the best of ideas, least of all if the intention is to contrast Polk's judgment with Buchanan's. After all, Polk was the guy who led America into the Mexican-American War. A war which expanded the territorial possessions of the US, but in so doing also set up the conditions which, amongst other things, was to produce the series of events which led to the secession crisis of 1860 & '61. The very crisis which Buchanan had to do battle with and which was to cause the American Civil War. So how was Polk's judgment any better than Buchanan's?

@kayzeaza

2 жыл бұрын

Well he used a quote from Polk since we’ve already had the Polk video and people would be familiar to us. Plus the Mexican-American War was an important step in expanding America from sea to shinning sea…and the nation was already on the road to civil war, with or without the Mexican-American War!!!

@Stephen-gi1rx

2 жыл бұрын

​@@kayzeaza "Plus the Mexican-American War was an important step in expanding America from sea to shinning sea" America ALREADY spanned from "from sea to shinning sea". That was accomplished by the Louisiana Purchase & other acquisitions up north. The Mexican-American War only added the more southerly states. DogLookingBackAtYou: "the nation was already on the road to civil war, with or without the Mexican-American War!!!" What is your basis for that statement? Without the territories acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War the conditions which produced the implosion of the Whigs & the rise of the Republican Party might never have happened, at least at that point, which in turn would unlikely have seen Lincoln become president, which in its own turn means that there is unlikely to have been a secession crisis in 1860 & '61. Without that crisis there is unlikely to have been a Civil War, at least at that point.

@kayzeaza

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stephen-gi1rx how about bleeding Kansas, The fact of slavery just being around at all, further industrializing of the north while the southern economy lagged behind, massive immigration in the north, John Browns Harper Ferry attack, etc. Plus Americans always envisioned owning California and Texas, who cares that we already owned Oregon Territory, America needed a larger chunk of the pacific coast.

@kayzeaza

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stephen-gi1rx also the Mexican-American war realistically didn’t add any southern states since California joined as a free state and New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada wouldn’t of joined as slave states because slavery was useless in those states since crash crops like cotton and tobacco couldn’t be harvested there!

@Stephen-gi1rx

2 жыл бұрын

​@@kayzeaza "how about bleeding Kansas" The Kansas-Nebraska Act & all that followed from that arose out of the Compromise of 1850 which in turn was prompted by the territories acquired deom Mexico by Mexican-Americna War. Had those territories never been acquired there may never have been a bleeding Kansas Slavery would still have been a large problem, but it was the territories issue not slavery per se which caused the Kansas problem. Southern Democrats got greedy & blew up the 1850 deal, which mostly concerned slavery in the newly acquired territories. Without those new territories there would have been no deal to blow up. Whether something else might have provided the spark is unknown and unknowable. In all likelihood the Union would have just muddled along. Brazil, for instance, kept slavery around until 1888. The most likely spark would have been an attempt to amend the Constitution to abolish slavery.. Back in 1837 the number of slave states ˙and free states was the same: 13 apiece. By 1861, however, there were 19 free states and only 15 states. If the proportion of free states kept growing then eventually the free states would have had the numbers to ratify such a constitutional amendment. At that point a secession crisis MAY have erupted.

Buchanan had to deal with the first world monetary crisis, war in several states including Utah and Kansas, the Dred Scott decision and a congress as polarized as the one we have today. Then as a lame duck he had to contend with the trouble in the Carolinas leading to secession. Nancy or not I doubt any politician of that period could have done any better. Lincoln certainly didn't.

@ivoryas1696

Жыл бұрын

Atticus Lincoln did _not_ have the same set of problems and challenges Buchanan did, and even though Lincoln handled things problematically, he still did well in several respects.

*You know wut? I know a guy in REAL life NAMED James Buchanan. I AM NOT KIDDING!! IT IS HIS FIRST AND LAST NAME!!*

@makubegysman6160

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

Last democrate elected after another? What about Harry Truman and LBJ, both were elected to their own term after taking over from their successor.

@kayzeaza

2 жыл бұрын

Truman and LBJ were both elected sure but they only became president because FDR and JFK died. He is saying Buchanan is the last Democrat to be elected after another democrat, Pierce was president and then he didn’t run again so Buchanan ran and one.

@ch44227

2 жыл бұрын

@@kayzeaza What kind of mental gymnastics is that? 1944 a Democrat was elected President and the next election a different democrat was elected. Same in 1960 & 1964. It doesn't make a difference what happened in between those elections.

@DavidHutchinson0713

Жыл бұрын

@@ch44227 I think the point Prof was making was that Buchanan was the last Democratic president-ELECT to follow the administration of another Democratic president. Truman and LBJ were elected for FULL four-year terms _after_ ascending and completing their respective predecessors' terms first; ergo, they were never presidents-elect, because they were already presidents when they won their full terms.

History did vindicate his memory the day Trump took office.

@fshoaps

2 жыл бұрын

Not even close. Buchanan led our country to a Civil War. Trump did not, sir

@ivoryas1696

Жыл бұрын

R. D. Wdym.

@mollypitcher9380

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I think you meant to write Biden.

@Darknimbus3

Жыл бұрын

Oh look. Another salty leftie with TDS 😂

@baseballworldwide9439

8 ай бұрын

🤡🤡

My great-great (great?) grand uncle....not someone to be proud of.

Lots of non-facts and "facts" twisted by poor context.

@ProfessorDaveExplains

3 жыл бұрын

This video is 100% factual information.

@szimbazsununnu1088

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you John.

@nathanphillips4027

3 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains You have said that slavery had been outlawed in the North since 1803. Slavery had been legal in New York all the way up to 1827, having been delayed after passing gradual emancipation in 1899. Slavery was also legal in New Jersey in varied forms all the way up to 1865

@Mycorruptedmind

10 ай бұрын

@@nathanphillips4027doesn’t mean it wasn’t still generally outlawed in the north, it’s not like the federal government was gonna stop those two states from having slaves

@ProfessorDaveExplains

10 ай бұрын

@@princessofarchetypes3870 Of course, and yet you can't list a single thing and don't even try. Well done, sweetie.

Out Bull,.. 😒👉

As bad as he was, he was far better than Bush and Trump.

Lol sad to think I’m related to this guy

I love Buchanan.He was simply following the Constitution as he understood it.How many politicians today have actually read the document?Remember there was popular sentiment in the north to simply let the south go.No sane person wants war.Buchanan never condemned a young man to death.His successor condemned 600,000 to their deaths.I cannot understand why Buchanan is seen as a bad president just because he did not believe he had the power to force the south to stay in the Union.

Joe Biden

@HellFire107

4 жыл бұрын

Biden won't remember you

@xxnnnxblxxdxxxxnnnxblxxdxx4484

3 жыл бұрын

@@HellFire107 he remembers everyone

@szimbazsununnu1088

3 жыл бұрын

@@xxnnnxblxxdxxxxnnnxblxxdxx4484 Biden woke up in bed about two weeks ago, turned to the First Lady and asked, "Where am I?"

@amongtheliving789

Жыл бұрын

Donald Trump*

Abraham Lincoln was LGBT too

@brysonwest93

23 күн бұрын

Huh?

@e.maevillalba6820

22 күн бұрын

@@brysonwest93 yesss I watched this gay history and one episode they did was on lincoln and he had a few great male loves in his life Edit the series is called “Book of Queer” and we hear about lgbtq+ individuals that history skipped over

He was not gay

@ProfessorDaveExplains

2 жыл бұрын

The facts state otherwise.

@ProfessorDaveExplains

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkVeghetta Please refer to the diary entry I read in this video you didn't watch. He was gay.

@ProfessorDaveExplains

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkVeghetta No you didn't, or you would have acknowledged the main piece of evidence that demonstrates he was gay. Only gay men try to woo other men. Also, I didn't throw around the word "fact". I don't know why people like you are so resistant to updating your view of historical figures. It's really weird.

@patriotsman6511

Жыл бұрын

Just because your single and not married doesn't mean you are gay that's stereotyping

Donald Trump one of the greatest American Presidents.

3:54 I disagree about it being one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in American History. It seems like a wise ,fair and reasonable ruling at that time. I live in Pierce County named after former President Franklin Pierce and I am proud of that.

@Mycorruptedmind

10 ай бұрын

So you’re a racist?

@matthewhedrichjr.5445

8 ай бұрын

Not it is not. It did more to hurt African Americans and took away their rights. This should have been one of the reasons why Buchanan should have been impeached and convicted

Supreme court never ruled on Dredd Scott, threw it out>

@starter47990

5 жыл бұрын

That's not true. The Supreme Court did ruled on Dredd Scott. What are you talking about?

Was Washington gay though?

James would been won eslection imaginé Trump losing at that time period now 2020 joe biden won save choice 😆

Buchanan can now rest easy. Trump wins the contest for worst President by a mile.

@strategery101

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Biden easily

@kayzeaza

2 жыл бұрын

@@strategery101 they’re both shit. Anyone who votes is retarded

@breadfan9

2 жыл бұрын

ANd you win the contest for the stupidest comment

@ivoryas1696

Жыл бұрын

@@strategery101 No, Grant's and Johnson's administrations were still less un-damaging.

@115zombies935

Жыл бұрын

Probably true. It’s a toss up between the two.