10 out of 18 isn’t that hot. It’s a fail, really.
44-26=18
18 presidents since teddy
Lets make a real top ten list. This means we must leave out 8 from the list.
First to be left out is jimmy carter and obama, for obvious reasons.
now, stands to reason we should leave out anyone who quits or gets impeached or declines to run for re election
that knocks out nixon, clinton, and LBJ
We are up to 5. We must pick 3 more to eliminate. A simple method would be to make a list of all the “one termers” and go from there.
one termers since teddy:
Taft
Harding
Hoover
Ford
I will give Ford a pardon(haha) and kick the first 3 to the curb.
That leaves on the list these 10
Teddy
Wilson
Coolidge
FDR
Truman
Ike
Kenedy
Ford
Reagan
Bush
Bush jr
oops, that’s one too many. Kick Ford to the curb(sorry bud, you don’t get a pardon after all)
Now for ranking
Reagan
Coolidge
Teddy
and the rest I don’t really care to try to rank except for last place...
Wilson
Wilson's handling of the end of WW1 was so inept he set the stage for WW2 and the country changed parties for his successor!
JFK wasn't around long enough to accomplish much but his election showed Ike couldn't have been that successful and beloved because the country changed parties.
Clinton? Al Gore was rejected, if narrowly. His policies were so rejected creating the first Republican Congress in 40 years.
No way should Reagan be so low on this list. He was just so awful, his Vice President succeeded him easily.
The Left will always self-pleasure over FDR as TIME did in making him "Person of the Century" while ignoring his treatment of Jewish refugees, his abuse of the U.S. Supreme Court, his power lust putting him into a fourth term, his lack of regard for his health and ability to function in the office, his racism, his allowing Pearl Harbor, his policies extending the Great Depression and his embrace of the evil that was Joe Stalin.
Only 3 on the list are Republicans! What about Jefferson? Washington? and Lincoln? No Obama will be a footnote in this history books.
It's interesting that of the 8 Democrat Presidents in the period 1901-2012, only one does not make their list (Carter), whereas only 3 of the 11 Republican Presidents are included.
Nixon, despite his failings, was a more consequential President than JFK and probably would have done a better job handling the problems of the early 1960s than Kennedy did. Kennedy was good at making inspiring speeches but not much else--and we can't know if Nixon would have adopted the goal of putting a man on the moon if he had been President instead of Kennedy. Given the rivalry with the Soviets in space, he might have.
Truman was eligible to run again in 1952 but decided not to because he was so unpopular.