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President Harry Truman. He ordered or approved the murders of 500,000 – 1,000,000 Japanese civilians over the course of half a year in 1945.

General Curtis LeMay. He carried out the murder of 500,000 – 1,000,000 Japanese civilians over the course of half a year in 1945. A nuclear maniac who explicitly denied that there were any innocent bystanders in war and by all accounts simply reveled in death and destruction.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a pseudo-leftist demagogue who created the military-industrial complex; ordered internment of Japanese-Americans, happily allied with, propagandized for, and consigned 1/2 of Europe to the totalitarian terror of, Joseph Stalin; and one of the three men who came the closest to becoming a dictator in the United States.

President Woodrow Wilson, unreprentant liar and war-monger, KKK fan, arch-segregationist, anti-feminist, and one of the three men who came the closest to becoming a dictator in the United States.

George Fitzhugh, the most militant defender of white supremacy and race slavery in the prewar South, author of Slavery Justified, Sociology in the South, and Cannibals All!

Nathan Bedford Forrest, perpetrator of the Fort Pillow massacre and founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

General William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the inventors of modern scorched-earth warfare, ravager of the South and murderer of Southern civilians; went on to pursue genocidal campaigns against the Plains Indians as a follow-up.

Senator James Eastland, militant white supremacist Senator from Mississippi, mad dog McCarthyist, and founding father of the White Citizens Councils.

In addition to seconding Larry Flynt, I’d also like to add Chuck Traynor, the pimp/pornographer/rapist/batterer/slave-driver who forced Linda Boreman into Deep Throat (among other pornography) and played an instrumental role in founding the mass-market, above-ground film pornography industry in the U.S. through repeated filmed rapes.