Who do you think has had the largest impact on American history since the Compromise of 1877 and why? Personally, I have a tossup of three people with two having positive impacts and one having a negative impact.
Henry Ford. He made it possible for your average Joe worker to be able to afford a car by mass-producing automobiles; starting with the Model T.
President H. Truman. He authorized the army air force to drop two atomic bombs on Japan within 3 days of each other. By doing so, he avoided a full-on invasion, which would have caused a predicted hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides.
President L. Johnson. He platformed as a peace candidate for presidency, but by 1969, he had committed 542,000 American troops to Vietnam, constantly sending General Westmoreland more troops, instead of pulling them out.
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