Rating the US Presidents

For John, BLUF:  This is a good sorting of our Presidents in terms of how well they performed in Office.  It is different to some degree from what I leanred in Elementary School, back in the 1950s.  But, our understanding evolves.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Rating the Presidents on Presidents' Day

From Vodka Pundit, by Blogger Stephen Green, 17 February 2025, 12:31 PM.

Here is the lede:

Presidents' Day is a stupid holiday.  We used to have two presidential holidays.  One for Washington, who showed noteworthy restraint in setting the precedents that his successors ought to live up to — and that's on top of successfully commanding the armies that won the Revolutionary War.  The other was for Lincoln, who saved the Union from rupture and was murdered for his efforts

Then Mr Green racked and stacked our Presidents.

As one might expect, the top two were Presidents Washington and Lincoln.

Then there are 15 described as worth remembering, including:

• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• James Monroe
• James Polk
• U S Grant
• William McKinley
• T Roosevelt
• Calvin Coolidge
• Harry Truman
• D D Eisenhower
• Gerald Ford
• Ronald Reagan
• GHW Bush
• John F Kennedy

Then there is the list of the ten worst:

• James Buchanan
• Andrew Johnson
• Woodrow Wilson
• Herburt Hoover
• Franklin D Roosevelt
• Lyndon B Johnson
• Jimmy Carter
• Barack Obama
• Joseph R Biden

He does bring the receipts.

Regards  —  Cliff