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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsC-SPAN's ranking of Presidents- Obama enters at .........#12
Bill #15
W. #33 up from #36
Reagan #9
Barack Obama Ranked 12th Best U.S. President Ever in Major Survey of Historians
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4674300/cspan-presidents-rank-2017/%3Fsource%3Ddam?client=safari
Once again the Big Three are Lincoln, Washington and FDR as it should be, said one of the shepherds of the survey, Douglas Brinkley of Rice University in Houston. That Obama came in at number 12 his first time out is quite impressive, Brinkley added.
But Howard University historian Edna Greene Medford, another of C-SPANs consultants on the project, thought Obama might have ranked even higher. She was surprised to see him in the middle of the pack for administrative skills, and thought that his rapidly rising approval ratings during the last months of his administration might give him more of a boost. Of course, Medford said, historians prefer to view the past from a distance, and only time will reveal his legacy.
Full list is here
https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2017/?page=overall
Vinca
(50,303 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Squinch
(51,004 posts)not to have to be dead last any more now that the Thrice Humped Moose is in the list.
underpants
(182,877 posts)I'd seen the MOOSE reference before but didn't know the origin. Hilarious.
Squinch
(51,004 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)...for President Obama!
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)as should slave-owners Washington and Jefferson.