"Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington, FDR, Teddy R, JFK"  LOL.  Do you really want an essay on each one of these you 'venerate' which exposes their actual feet of clay under modern standards?  Let's start with the fact that half of them were unfaithful in marriage and then go from there?  Teddy Roosevelt's White Man's Burden and gunboat diplomacy including the Great White Fleet would just be a start on him.  JFK:  The Bay of Pigs, the CIA, "Advisors" who got us started in the Vietnam War?  FDR's attempt to Pack the Supreme Court after they kept finding his legislation unconstitutional would just be a start; he had three terms, after all.  Jefferson and slavery?  Lincoln's suspension of the law of habeus corpus and only 'freeing' the slaves in Southern states, not the ones who had slaves but supported his side in the Civil War?  Should we hate Carnegie for his libraries. too?  Or just because he was one of many robber barons?  Was the Vanderbilt who was Governor of Rhode Island evil, too?