[xsmommy]

i predict someone will answer Abe Lincoln. I had someone give me that answer, recnetly, to the same question.

[Huck]

That's a possibility. Lincoln's tenure was so unusual, it's hard to judge him in normal terms. He only won because of the sectional politics of the day. He was very smart, and said some very poetical things, and he had resolve.

But was he a good executive? It seems to me he wasn't. He had enormous ongoing problems managing his cabinet and his generals.