[ReleaseTheHounds]

MarkDel: Good list... but remove FDR (replace with Polk). Elevate W (so far) to just below Reagan. Remove Nixon -- besides his lying and criminal coverup [I've been apologizing for him for 30 years], his price controls and other big government activities merely propogated LBJ's awful War On Poverty.

I like your WORST list... Giving Jimmy Carter the top 5 spots is appropriate: Bill Clinton and LBJ should say a prayer to JC every night, thanking him for his service. And put Harding above Herbert Hoover -- Harding and Clinton are soul-mates and should be linked throughout history on a list like yours.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think you are being unfair to Harding to liken him to Clinton. Harding was in over his head and made some bad appointments, men who betrayed his trust in them...but he does not seem to have been personally crooked and he seems to have lacked Clinton's relentless dishonesty, viciousness and meanspiritedness. If he had lived longer, I really doubt Harding would have engaged in perjury, intimidation of witnesses, and the rest of the Clintonesque repertoire in order to thwart the investigation of the Teapot Dome scandal.