Presidential Lies

President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton applaud during the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 12, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President John F. Kennedy ­–

• Had Addison‘s disease, a serious hormonal condition, which he covered up.
• Denied his many extra-marital affairs with gangster molls and Hollywood stars.
• Lied about a non-existent “missile gap” in the 1960 presidential race. Once elected, he allowed the Pentagon to announce that no missile gap existed.

President Bill Clinton –

• Narrowly escaped impeachment for lying about his Oval Office affair with Monica Lewinsky (“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”).

President Barack Obama –

• Lied almost daily about his health care proposal, promising, “If you like your health care plan you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.”
• That lie helped secure the passage of Obamacare and compelled four million Americans to seek another health care plan.

Lyndon B. Johnson –

• Repeatedly promised not to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what “Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” At the very same time and with Johnson’s approval, the Pentagon was drawing up plans to send the first wave of more than 100,000 American servicemen to Vietnam.
• His macho determination not to “lose” Vietnam led him to keep increasing the number of American troops until they reached over 500,000.
• His strategy produced ever mounting U.S. fatalities, reaching a total of 58,000 by the time fighting ended in 1973.

From Lee Edwards at The Federalist.