[Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

[lfalen]

I would not argue too much with this ranking, but it depends on what you use for a criteria. If one uses incompetence and being ineffective as a guide: Buchanan, Pierce and Harding are still on the bottom. If one uses who did the most to preserve the Nation and advance individual rights alone with who did the most damage: Washington and Lincoln would still be on top. Reagan would move up some and FDR, Willson and Nixon  would be moved to the bottom 10. LBJ is a mixed bag. He did quite a bit to advance civil rights, otherwise he did more harm than good. I would give Carter high marks for his work with Habitat for Humanity, but not as president. JFK was not president long enough to be adequately evaluated. W.Harrison and Garfield  should not be evaluated at all. 
One thing we can probably all agree on is that  Lincoln was a great president. Due to conflicting schedules the Lincoln Day Dinner is being postponed to March 22. You are all invited.
Roger
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From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:52:40 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

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> Abraham Lincoln comes in first again in C-SPAN's second Historians Survey of
> Presidential Leadership -- an index that takes the views of 65 presidential
> historians and ranks the 42 former presidents according to 10 "attributes of
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> The public affairs cable news network first produced a Presidents Day
> ranking of presidents in 2000. So this is its initial look at where former
> president George W. Bush ranks. He comes in at No. 36.
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> As for the rest, historians' opinions haven't changed too much. George
> Washington (now No. 2) and Franklin Roosevelt (No. 3) switched places. Bill
> Clinton moved up from No. 21 in the previous index to No. 15 now. Ulysses S.
> Grant moved up 10 places, to No. 23. Rutherford B. Hayes lost 7 places, and
> now stands at No. 33.
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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