[Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

[Tom Hansen]

JFK who created the Peace Corps in 1962 should not be 
recognized/evaluated???????

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


> 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
> -----Original message-----
> 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)
> 
> > Courtesy of USA Today at:
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> > http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/02/62913403/1
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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
> > leadership."
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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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> > Courtesy of C-SPAN
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> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> > 
> > Tom Hansen
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> > Moscow, Idaho
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> > "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet 
there will
> > stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-
improving
> > path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, 
so
> > far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
> > 
> > 
> > -Sir Winston Churchill
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