re: Who is tGOAT President of the United States?

Though he did pull off the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson's presidency was riddled by British bullying, which he mishandled for the most part. We eventually got the War of 1812 out of that, but that may have been inevitable anyway.

Jefferson may have authored the Declaration, but his biggest accomplishment was beating out Alexander Hamilton in a power struggle to shape the identity of the nation. Hamilton was a big govt idealist who wanted us to be just like Great Britain, even though we had declared independence only a couple decades before. Jefferson pushed the idea of state’s rights and small govt. Jefferson ended up being president, and Hamilton spiraled down and eventually died in a duel with the Vice President at the time