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The fact is, "Junior" did a TERRIBLE job and left the country a wreck.
There's a reason his approval ratings near the end of his term were among the lowest ever recorded for any President.
By Kenneth T. Walsh
Posted February 17, 2009
President George W. Bush is near the bottom of the heap in the latest survey of historians on presidential leadership. Bush received an overall ranking of 36 out of 42 former presidents—in the bottom 10.
The five best presidents, according to the historians, were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, in that order. Rounding out the top 10 were John F. Kennedy at six, Thomas Jefferson, Dwight Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, and Reagan. The worst presidents, according to the survey, were James Buchanan at 42, Andrew Johnson at 41, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison, Warren Harding, Millard Fillmore, George W. Bush, [COLOR=#005497 ! important][COLOR=#005497 ! important]John [COLOR=#005497 ! important]Tyler[/color][/color][/color], Herbert Hoover, and Rutherford B. Hayes.
The survey was conducted for C-SPAN, the cable network, among 65 presidential historians and scholars, who ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House on 10 attributes of leadership: public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with [COLOR=#005497 ! important][COLOR=#005497 ! important]Congress[/color][/color], "vision/setting an agenda," "pursued equal justice for all," and "performance within the context of his times."
Supervising the survey were historians Douglas Brinkley of Rice University, Edna Medford of Howard University, and Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University.
Well of course you didn't. I wonder who wrote the piece? The Nobel prize committee?
Do you ever consider READING before you comment?
Apparently not.
" By Kenneth T. Walsh
Posted February 17, 2009
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The survey was conducted for C-SPAN, the cable network, among 65 presidential historians and scholars, who ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House on 10 attributes of leadership: public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with [COLOR=#005497 ! important][COLOR=#005497 ! important]Congress[/color][/color], "vision/setting an agenda," "pursued equal justice for all," and "performance within the context of his times."
Supervising the survey were historians Douglas Brinkley of Rice University, Edna Medford of Howard University, and Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University."
That's because despite what the Right thinks, Carter wasn't that bad. I voted against Carter (and FOR Reagan) but the fact is, Carter's Camp David Agreement is biggest single Middle East diplomatic victory the US has ever achieved.
That's because despite what the Right thinks, Carter wasn't that bad. I voted against Carter (and FOR Reagan) but the fact is, Carter's Camp David Agreement is biggest single Middle East diplomatic victory the US has ever achieved.
Ken
Carter had very little to do with that beyond setting up a table and serving cookies.
Truman was at teh same level or even worse. Now he is at the top levels because the important historian will not answer until they see now policies effect on the future.Even then they will vary as to opinions. Its will take decades before they even see many documents.Carter really seems to be of liitle interest except for his book which meet with accusations of lies from his own poeple.
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