[Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

[lfalen]

I did not say that he should not be evaluate, I said adequately evaluated. Yes, he did do some good and may have done more if he had lived.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:26:59 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

> 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:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/02/62913403/1
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 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."
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Courtesy of C-SPAN
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Tom Hansen
> > > 
> > > Moscow, Idaho
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > "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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> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
> "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
> to work."
> 
> - Roy Zimmerman
> 
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