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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Bill Clinton’s legacy didn’t last too long.
Got my own ranking, starting from the worst”
Abraham Lincoln; for tearing the country apart, and being responsible for the deaths of more men than were killed in all other U.S. wars put together.
Next worst: nobody else even comes close/
Who really gives two craps about this? Such exercises can only be classified as mental masturbation by people who have nothing more important to do with their time.
Some vastly underrated:
James K. Polk, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge
All better than JFK in my opinion