US leaders’ hall of shame unveiled

FROM engaging in sexual relations with an intern to letting the Vietnam War escalate, US presidents have been blamed for some egregious errors.

President James Buchanan had the worst blunder, for failing to avert the US Civil War, according to a survey of presidential historians organised by the University of Louisville’s McConnell Centre.

The survey’s top 10 presidential blunders were announced on Saturday during a President’s Day weekend conference, called Presidential Moments.