Who was the greatest and Worst American President
 

I am currently reading a book about John Kennedy and was intrested to know who you all think was one of the greatest american presidents and why do you think that they are. An who would you say was the worst American president.

1. George Washington 1789-1797

2. John Adams 1797-1801

3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809

4. James Madison 1809-1817

5. James Monroe 1817-1825

6. John Quincy Adams 1825-1829

7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837

8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841

9. William Henry Harrison 1841

10. John Tyler 1841-1845

11. James Knox Polk 1845-1849

12. Zachary Taylor 1849-1850

13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853

14. Franklin Pierce 1853-1857

15. James Buchanan 1857-1861

16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

17. Andrew Johnson 1865-1869

18. Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877

19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881

20. James Abram Garfield 1881

21. Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885

22. Grover Cleveland 1885-1889

23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893

24. Grover Cleveland 1893-1897

25. William McKinley 1897-1901

26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

27. William Howard Taft 1909-1913

28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921

29. Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923

30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929

31. Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933

32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

33. Harry S. Truman 1945-1953

34. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961

35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963

36. Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969

37. Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974

38. Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974-1977

39. James Earl Carter Jr. 1977-1981

40. Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989

41. George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993

42. William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001

43. George Walker Bush 2001-

40. and 43.

nixons second name really is milhous???

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#42..bill clinton takes the cake for both :thumbsup

41 and 43 :pimp

#40 and 32

Worst - May end up being Bush, but I'll reserve that judgement until enough time has passed to have history reflect what his administration has done. My opinion for the worst president in history is Ulysses S. Grant

Best - Theodore Roosevelt

Ab Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt has to be the best and im thinking George W will go down as the worst.

Worst - James Buchanan 1857-1861
Best - Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

Best - Lincoln
Worst -Bushie jr.

Best - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Worst - Dubya - by a wide margin

Most president are hated for 20 years before they start beeing appreciated.

IMHO:


Best - probably Truman (#33)

Worst - maybe Buchanan (#15)

It takes that long to forget the actual facts of their term in office and let the myth start growing.

Seriously.. there are a few folks mentioning Reagan - and he has got plenty going for him. (Was he "popular" during his term??) Wonder how many remember the "other side" to his Presidency??

Smell the best is probably going to come from under 40 or that list and little doubts the worst is in the over 40 range.

Worst 42. William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001

Best Reagan
Worst is a tie Carter - Clinton.

Best president: Nixon.
Worst president: Shrub Jr.

Best: 43. George Walker Bush 2001- (for finishing Saddam)

Worst: 41. George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993 (for not finishing Saddam)

Everyone #4 and above was the best, after that, it went to shit.

Worst : Jimmy Carter ( and still continues to be a idiot)
Best : Ronald Reagan

#16 is Jefferson Davis :1orglaugh

Greatest is Harry Truman for having the courage to drop the bomb and end World War II.

Worst is Bill Clinton for abusing his power for his own purposes.

I was wondering if anyone was going to mention Carter. He might have as much to do with the failure of the demcratic party as Clinton's cock in a fat intern.

Its been 30 years since the democrats have been able to join an intelligent discussion about economics. Carter (along with Reagan) proved the democrats economic theories invalid. It is hard to kill an entire party, but he did it.

Best: Ronald Reagen
Worst: George W. BUsh

Best: Roosevelt (FDR)

Worst: Nixon (for the level of corruption he brought to the White House and the Republican Party).

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Double post...but Nixon was definitely the worst...

Worst: Nixon (for the level of corruption he brought to the White House and the Republican Party).

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worst bushes, best clinton :) don't remember others :)

Reagan was the best
Clinton by far the worst

Smell a lot of political voting :winkwink:

Would be nice to know who actually did the best/worst job for the US - as opposed to political bullshit.

not sure the worst (yet).

but the man who actually did the most for the entire world was truman.

and few realize it.

he had to courage to do the unthinkable that put an immediate end to what could have been massive human suffering on a global scale.

Best - FDR
Worst - George W. Bush


How can anyone possibly argue that Bush Jr. has not been the worst in history? He's the only president who has had every single one of his policies end up as a miserable failure, without a single success. Not the mention the fact that he seems to be doing his best to do irreparable hard to our economy, that we'll never be able to recover from. The country's prosperity will never be the same because of one administration.

So you think the most important issue that ever faced this country was Saddam?

Best - FDR


Worst - Bill Clinton

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Best ... many....

worse: only one choice : Dubya...

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Best - FDR
Worst - Hoover

Worst: El Shrubo

Best: FDR

Best: I'd say FDR

Worst: honestly GW will go down as one of the worst

Best: Hands down, no competition, Theodore Roosevelt

Worst: LBJ - Vietnam belongs to him...eventhough Kennedy had placed a good amount of advisors in S. Vietnam and Eisenhower before that put a few advisors...the escalation and mess of Vietnam really gets placed on LBJ's head.

Oh yea, didn't 92 - 2000 just suck? I mean what a bad time to live in the US.

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You have to be kidding me.

Best - Jefferson

Worst- I and 415 historians agree George W. Bush
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/pro...ent_in_history
He makes Nixon and Buchanon look great.

Best, Washington
Worst, Bush 2

Holy christ you are blinded by your politics.
Clinton oversaw the best economy since the baby boom.

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No SHIT!!! Balanced budgets and Surpluses, that's just FUCKING Un-American

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And the saddest part of this post was having to add the [SARCASM] tags, otherwise the republicans wouldn't understand the joke. Hell, they probably still won't get the truth and reason behind it even with explanations. Next time I'll have to include implicit stick figure drawings as well. Oh crap.

Worst ever in the History of mankind #43
Best ever #16

worst = the actor turned president ronny willy reagan

best= Clinton

I didn't know there would be a pop quiz. Maybe FDR was the best?

The current one is probably the worst.

Bush is worst after Clinton....

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