February 16, 2009
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Presidential Rankings
Clips from a Yahoo!® article:
Former President George W. Bush, who left office last month, was ranked 36th out of the 42 men who had been chief executive by the end of 2008, according to a survey conducted by the cable channel C-SPAN.
Bush
scored lowest in international relations, where he was ranked 41st, and
in economic management, where he was ranked 40th. His highest ranking,
24th, was in the category of pursuing equal justice for all. He was
ranked 25th in crisis leadership and vision and agenda setting.[...]
After Lincoln, the academics rated George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman as the best leaders overall. The same five received top spots in the 2000 survey, although Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt swapped spots this year.
Rated worst overall were James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison and Warren G. Harding.
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I must ask how William Henry Harrison was rated one of the worst overall considering he was only a president for about 32 days. Teehee.
