Jefferson, at least, was president during a time of rapid formation of the US state as we know it today, and oversaw some of those decisions himself. Establishing the US military academy, the Louisiana Purchase, the Supreme Court case that established judicial overview of executive branch actions, Library of Congress, stuff like that.
Like 65% of it is hagiography, though. He was mostly just a highly consequential presidency, not necessarily a morally good one. Guy had some of the earliest tax cutting brainworms at the federal level, and established the early forms of American attitudes towards foreigners and American natives of "assimilate or be exterminated", as a pretext for seizing native territories, or at least strong-arming them into accepting US credit lines as with the right to remain on their land as collateral.
Jefferson, at least, was president during a time of rapid formation of the US state as we know it today, and oversaw some of those decisions himself. Establishing the US military academy, the Louisiana Purchase, the Supreme Court case that established judicial overview of executive branch actions, Library of Congress, stuff like that.
Like 65% of it is hagiography, though. He was mostly just a highly consequential presidency, not necessarily a morally good one. Guy had some of the earliest tax cutting brainworms at the federal level, and established the early forms of American attitudes towards foreigners and American natives of "assimilate or be exterminated", as a pretext for seizing native territories, or at least strong-arming them into accepting US credit lines as with the right to remain on their land as collateral.