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Each president/leader has a calling, a calling to serve his country and its people. He is supposed to make contributions through dreams, character traits, and choices. I have enumerated a few that I have read about and listed what I think are their legacies (good or bad). Tell me what you know about presidents/leaders and what you think/know are their legacies? (Good or bad)
President Bush was a business man and owner of a major league baseball. He held different occupations and faced difficult challenges. Bush will be judged based on his leadership through two tragedies — the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, plus a conflict of his own design; the war in Iraq. Katrina's lethal aftermath revealed that the Bush administration didn't learn valuable lessons from the 2001 attacks about responding to disasters. As for the president himself, since the Sept. 11 terror strikes, Bush seems to have lost his touch for connecting with the american anxious public.
President Clinton was the first Democratic president to be awarded a second term in six decades. Under his leadership, the United States enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. President Clinton’s core values of building community, creating opportunity, and demanding responsibility resulted in unprecedented progress for America, including moving the nation from record deficits to record surpluses; the creation of over 22 million jobs—more than any other administration; low levels of unemployment, poverty and crime; and the highest homeownership and college enrollment rates in history. His accomplishments as president include increasing investment in education, providing tax relief for working families, helping millions of Americans move from welfare to work, expanding access to technology, and encouraging investment in underserved communities, protecting the environment, countering the threat of terrorism and promoting peace and strengthening democracy around the world. He will be judged by his genuine caring and love for mankind.
Nelson Mandela detested racialism; he regarded it as a barbaric thing, whether it came from a black or a white man. He contested with all intensity, against white or black domination. A democratic and free society in which all persons lived together in harmony and with equal opportunities, is something which he lived for and hoped to achieve, and if need be, an ideal for which he was prepared to die for. He has never wavered in his devotion to democracy, equality and learning. Despite terrible provocation, he has never answered racism with racism. His life has been an inspiration, in South Africa and throughout the world, to all who are oppressed and deprived, to all who are opposed to oppression and deprivation.
Yoweri Museveni grew up as at child of a cattle-raising nomadic family. Museveni, was an effective leader in the first decades of his presidency. His political outlook was to change the political order of Uganda by ousting dictator Idi Amin Dada's regime and, later to unseat the second Obote regime which usurped power by rigging the elections of 1980. However, Mr. Museveni will be judged by his lack of commitment to democracy, continued poverty in the country, failing to quell the insurgency in the north and north-east of the country, challenging his neighbours to go “mano a mano”, i.e. his questionable involvement in the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Kenya and Sudan.
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