[LS]

Any list of "influential" that doesn't BEGIN with Washington is beyond silly. The man merely personally designed the office, established all subsequent patterns of behavior (until FDR), organized the support network, and built the mold.

To put in Ike over Reagan is equally silly.

[Norman Bates]

Ike was the last Republican president to date to have a balanaced budget. Ike was the last president to deport illegal aliens en masse.