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Best Presidents In History - 2008 Harris PollHarris Interactive conducted an online poll within the United States last month. They asked over 2000 adults: Which one of the following presidents do you think was the best overall president in our history?The list included all presidents since Franklin Roosevelt, along with some of the more famous from earlier in American history – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge. Scores were tallied by adding the percentage of those who answered “best” and “second best” for each president. Among modern leaders, Ronald Reagan ranked highest, but even his cache could not compete with the mighty Abe Lincoln, who was named the top president by 20 percent of those surveyed.
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Ronald Reagan?
What did he provide?
Iran/Contra.
Social Insecurity.
Instead of a War on Poverty he made war on the Poor.
Posted by: David Schechter | February 17, 2008 10:44 AM
Was this poll taken just of the Bush family???????
Posted by: Jean | February 17, 2008 12:18 PM
i am not a great historian but i know enough about history to know that james polk should at least be in the list of top 20 presidents
Posted by: thomas strandlie | February 17, 2008 12:46 PM
This list says a lot about what we look for in leaders:
Vision (Reagan, Kennedy)
Courage (Roosevelt, Lincoln)
Integrity (Washington, Truman)
Communicator (Clinton, Reagan)
I also think the passage of time allows us to better evaluate the leadership and accomplishments of our Presidents. I suspect that will be the case in how we evaluate Bush 43. And I suspect he will fare well in that evaluation.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 17, 2008 01:23 PM
This list says a lot about what we look for in leaders:
Vision (Reagan, Kennedy)
Courage (Roosevelt, Lincoln)
Integrity (Washington, Truman)
Communicator (Clinton, Reagan)
I also think the passage of time allows us to better evaluate the leadership and accomplishments of our Presidents. I suspect that will be the case in how we evaluate Bush 43. And I suspect he will fare well in that evaluation.
Posted by: Tom Magness | February 17, 2008 01:24 PM
I am not going to believe ANYTHING ever again from a Harris Poll. It is obviously not a scientific poll if George W. Bush is ranked anywhere above the bottom third.
Posted by: W J S | February 17, 2008 05:47 PM
How is it that George Washington is #5? That's ridiculous. And Roosevelt is number three? All he did was institute a bunch of worthless government programs. He wasn't even the one to get us out of the depression; it was the war. As for Bill Clinton, that's a joke. It wasn't even thanks to him that the economy was so good back then. It was Bush Sr.'s tax cuts taking effect finally.
Either the results of this poll were largely fabricated, or adults are simply ignorant.
Posted by: Chiyo | February 19, 2008 03:07 PM
Surprising.
My top Presidents would have to be:
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. FDR
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. Harry Truman
5. George Washington
6. Andrew Jackson
7. Ronald Reagan
8. Lyndon Johnson
9. John Kennedy
10. Dwight Eisenhower
Posted by: Kevin | March 7, 2008 07:56 AM