 My Favorite Presidents
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Posted on 07/04/2007 9:07:20 AM PDT by finnman69
Six American Presidents are viewed favorably by at least 80% of all Americans. Those esteemed six are led by the first President George Washington. The Father of our Country is viewed favorably by 94% of Americans. The sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln, is the second most popular. The man who gave us the Gettysburg Address is viewed favorably by 92% (see Presidential favorable ratings).
The next four are Thomas Jefferson (89%), Teddy Roosevelt (84%), Franklin D. Roosevelt (81%), and John F. Kennedy (80%).
Five other Presidents are viewed favorably by at least 70% of Americans today—John Adams (74%), James Madison (73%), Ronald Reagan (72%), Dwight Eisenhower (72%), and Harry Truman (70%). It’s worth noting that the nation’s first four Presidents—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison—all continue to earn rave reviews in the twenty-first century.
The highest unfavorable rating for any President is earned by Richard Nixon. Sixty percent (60%) of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the only President to resign from office. Thirty-two percent (32%) have a favorable opinion of the man who famously went to China.
Close on Nixon’s heels for most unpopular is the current President, George W. Bush. Fifty-nine percent (59%) have an unfavorable opinion of him. Lyndon Johnson (42%), Bill Clinton (41%), and the first President Bush (41%) are the only other Presidents viewed unfavorably by at least 40% of Americans.
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“JFK stood up to Kurschiev; backed him down”
JFK backed down at Bay fo Pigs, in summits and when berlin wall went up. his failures to stand up then created the cuban missile crisis, because the USSR thought they could push him around. Similarly, we saw thatin 1979 with USSR afghanistan invasion and in 1950 when south korea was attacked: We project weakness and they tried to exploit it. and a consequence of the ‘deal’ after cuban missile crisis was to allow a soviet satellite 90 miles from our shore, a situation that continued until the USSR fell apart.
IMHO, the Cuban Missile Crisis is an example of why JFK was NOT a good President.
“and plotted to OFF Fidel.” Plotted? Well, he failed. Another reason from democrats to love him.
What is even more funnier than this “poll” are the reponses on this thread.
Jimmy Carter higher than Millard Fillmore??? Bull. Must be some lib BS poll with fancy language designed to obfuscate the truth....as usual.
Oh, my. Bush the Younger may go down in history tied for favorable ratings with — dig it — Warren G Harding.
Good to see kind words for Harding. I agree with you both.
When his funeral train passed through parts of the country, people turned out trackside to mourn him in large numbers.
Harding, however, had as much luck keeping his legacy in his pants and Clinton does.
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My Favorite Presidents
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Poll taken in the confines of the DNC building.
Any poll showing Clinton and Carter more favored than Bush is not one I would lend any weight to.
That looks familiar! You really do nice web work.
Like most polls.
Voted for GW four times? Did they repeal the 22nd Ammendment and I wake up after sleeping for seven years, or are you counting primaries???
Hey, Kennedy did cut taxes, and despite botching the Bay of Pigs and letting the Soviets pull the wool over his eyes, he did get them to remove the missiles at a moment when nuclear war seemed inevitable.... for that, he deserves some credit...
I would rate Filmore bad because he had a silly name. I think thats what most of America thinks.
And they think Grant was good because he was a booze drinking General. He was a lousy President. The only good that came from the Grant Administration is Jim West, of the Wild, Wild West.
You could vote for him two more times in Texas when he ran for Gov.
Twice for governor, twice for President!
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