Posted on 02/16/2009 7:15:08 PM PST by lonestar67
President/ Score/ rank 2009/rank 2000
Abraham Lincoln 902 1 1 George Washington 854 2 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt 837 3 2 Theodore Roosevelt 781 4 4 Harry S. Truman 708 5 5 John F. Kennedy 701 6 8 Thomas Jefferson 698 7 7 Dwight D. Eisenhower 689 8 9 Woodrow Wilson 683 9 6 Ronald Reagan 671 10 11
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1. Reagan moves into the top 10 2. FDR & Johnson fall in rankings 3. Eisenhower and JFK move up 4. Bush Sr. is ahead of Carter 5. Bush W is rated near the bottom [which is absurd in my opinion]
I strongly believe that W is one of the greatest international presidents ever. He won three military engagements: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Liberia. He drastically improved relations with India. He removed the Libyan WMD program. He dramatically improved Africa-- ending his presidency with a 78% approval on the continent. Historians rate him near the bottom of all US Presidents. Clinton was rated 21 out of 42 at the immediate end of his term.
Hoping this pagination is better:
Abraham Lincoln
902
1
1
George Washington
854
2
3
Franklin D. Roosevelt
837
3
2
Theodore Roosevelt
781
4
4
Harry S. Truman
708
5
5
John F. Kennedy
701
6
8
Thomas Jefferson
698
7
7
Dwight D. Eisenhower
689
8
9
Woodrow Wilson
683
9
6
Ronald Reagan
671
10
11
1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Andrew Jackson
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Theodore Roosevelt
6. Ronald Reagan
Kennedy in the top ten? Why?
He should be at the near bottom - perhaps only relpaced by Carter at the bottom. Nah. No democratic-loving “Camelot” bias here. None at all.
His Bay of Pigs was a disaster, Civil Rights was a stalemate until after JFK died.
By any measurement, how can Jimmy Carter be rated so high? Counting Habitats for Humanity after the fact?
FDR is actually one of the worst for trashing the fundamental Constitutional construct of a limited, highly constrained federal government.
JFK should be nowhere near the Top 10.
He was young and popular.
Abe, Washington, Reagan belong in the top 5 for sure.
Grover Cleveland gets no respect, for no good reason.
I salute him!
Well, in light of Lincoln’s bicentennial, our (liberal) friends had everyone go around the table and name their favorite president. Awkward silence when I announced mine was W! But at least I was wasn’t tarred and feathered...
It’s going to be a long time (if ever, if the US keep falling under the control and brainwashing of the “liberals” and socialists so calle “Democrats” that Bush will ever get a fair shake and unbiased evaluation.
Before that will happen the entire culture, media, universities, etc. will have to be forced into being “fair and balanced” which will never happen without a few or many them being metaphorically beaten into some kind of submisson. Or worse (or better, depending on one’s viewpoint).
I say Zack Efron is one of our greatest presidents. He's young and popular too.
Exactly analysis but who care what these idiots think. The vast majority of them are left wing. President G W Bush already changed the course of history in a way very few Presidents before him and after him will do.
And what this has anything to do with greatness or achievements?
what a comically biased list. They got it all wrong. At the top, it’s clearly Washington, Lincoln, Reagan.
I’d put GWB in the middle. I’ll controversially rate Nixon near the bottom, for taking us off the gold standard. At the bottom, it’s FDR, Carter, Obama. Obama gets an asterisk, since he’s still in office, and well, he’s got plenty of time to redeem himself (anything is possible, ya know).
I meant to say that your analysis about President Bush is excellent.
Interesting chart on Wikipedia.....lists all the Presidents and ALL the rankings thru the year...below shows the number rankings through the years since 1948....
Chronological order President Schlesinger 1948 poll rank Schlesinger 1962 poll rank 1982 Murray-Blessing survey of 846 historians Chicago Tribune 1982 poll rank Siena 1982 poll rank Siena 1990 poll rank Siena 1994 poll rank Ridings- McIver 1996 poll rank CSPAN 1999 poll rank Wall Street Journal 2000 poll rank Siena 2002 poll rank Wall Street Journal 2005 poll rank CSPAN 2009 poll rank
01 George Washington 02 02 03 03 04 04 04 03 03 01 04 01 02
02 John Adams 09 10 09 14 (tie) 10 14 12 14 16 13 12 13 17
03 Thomas Jefferson 05 05 04 05 02 03 05 04 07 04 05 04 07
04 James Madison 14 12 14 17 09 08 09 10 18 15 09 17 20
05 James Monroe 12 18 15 16 15 11 15 13 14 16 08 16 14
06 John Quincy Adams 11 13 16 19 17 16 17 18 19 20 17 25 19
07 Andrew Jackson 06 06 07 06 13 09 11 08 13 06 13 10 13
08 Martin Van Buren 15 17 20 18 21 21 22 21 30 23 24 27 31
09 William Henry Harrison – – – 38 26 35 28 35 37 – 36 — 39
10 John Tyler 22 25 28 29 34 33 34 34 36 34 37 35 35
11 James K. Polk 10 08 12 11 12 13 14 11 12 10 11 09 12
12 Zachary Taylor 25 24 27 28 29 34 33 29 28 31 34 33 29
13 Millard Fillmore 24 26 29 31 32 32 35 36 35 35 38 36 37
14 Franklin Pierce 27 28 31 35 35 36 37 37 39 37 39 38 40
15 James Buchanan 26 29 33 36 37 38 39 40 41 39 41 40 42
16 Abraham Lincoln 01 01 01 01 03 02 02 01 01 02 02 02 01
17 Andrew Johnson 19 23 32 32 38 39 40 38 40 36 42 37 41
18 Ulysses S. Grant 28 30 35 30 36 37 38 38 33 32 35 29 23
19 Rutherford B. Hayes 13 14 22 22 22 23 24 26 25 22 27 24 33
20 James Garfield – – – 33 25 30 26 30 29 – 33 — 28
21 Chester A. Arthur 17 21 26 24 24 26 27 32 28 26 30 26 32
22, 24 Grover Cleveland 08 11 17 13 18 17 19 17 16 12 20 12 21
23 Benjamin Harrison 21 20 23 25 31 29 30 31 31 27 32 30 30
25 William McKinley 18 15 18 10 19 19 18 17 15 14 19 14 16
26 Theodore Roosevelt 07 07 05 04 05 05 03 05 04 05 03 05 04
27 William Howard Taft 16 16 19 20 20 20 21 20 24 19 21 20 24
28 Woodrow Wilson 04 04 06 07 06 06 06 06 06 11 06 11 09
29 Warren G. Harding 29 31 36 37 39 40 41 38 38 37 40 39 38
30 Calvin Coolidge 23 27 30 27 30 31 36 33 27 25 29 23 26
31 Herbert Hoover 20 19 21 21 27 28 29 24 34 29 31 31 34
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt 03 03 02 02 01 01 01 02 02 03 01 03 03
33 Harry S. Truman – 09 08 08 07 07 07 07 05 07 07 07 05
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower – 22 11 09 11 12 08 09 09 09 10 08 08
35 John F. Kennedy – – 13 14 (tie) 08 10 10 15 08 18 14 15 06
36 Lyndon B. Johnson – – 10 12 14 15 13 12 10 17 15 19 11
37 Richard Nixon – – 34 34 28 25 23 32 25 33 26 32 27
38 Gerald R. Ford – – 24 23 23 27 32 27 23 28 28 28 22
39 Jimmy Carter – – 25 26 33 24 25 19 22 30 25 34 25
40 Ronald Reagan – – – – 16 22 20 26 11 08 16 06 10
41 George H. W. Bush – – – – – 18 31 22 20 21 22 21 18
42 Bill Clinton – – – – – – 16 23 21 24 18 22 15
43 George W. Bush – – – – – – – – – – 23 18 36
44 Barack Obama – – – – – – – – – – – – –
The high rank of LBJ tells you all you need to know about the bias of these historians. The Iraq war was minor compared to Vietnam.
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