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Happy Presidents Day Survey

C-SPAN's has released it's second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. The survey is 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 who comes in at No. 36.

The top 5 are:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Harry S. Truman

The bottom 5 are:

38. Warren G. Harding
39. William Henry Harrison
40. Franklin D. Pierce
41. Andrew Johnson
42. James Buchanan

There has not been much change from the 2000 rankings with a couple of notable exceptions:

Bill Clinton moved up from 21 to 15
Ulysses S. Grant moved up from 33 to 23
Rutherford B. Hayes moved down from 26 to 33

It will be interesting to see if the next list moves our lat President up or down after we have a few years to reflect on the last 8 years as well as how our current president will rank just after he has left office.

Labels: President

posted by TheWino @ 9:39 AM