Best President by decade?

[WI_DEM]

My choices:

1790's: Washington/ J. Adams: Washington
1800's: Jefferson/ Madison: Jefferson
1810's: Madison/ Monroe: Monroe
1820's: Monroe/J. Q. Adams: Monroe
1830's: Jackson/ Van Buren: Jackson
1840's: Harrison (died after a month)/ Tyler/ Polk: Polk
1850's: Fillmore/ Pierce/ Buchanan: Three real lemons in a roll: probably Fillmore was the best
1860's: Lincoln/ A. Johnson: Abe
1870's: Grant/ Hayes: Hayes
1880's: Garfield (died after six months)/Arthur/ Cleveland: Cleveland, though Arthur was better than some think.
1890's: B. Harrison, G. Cleveland, William McKinley: Cleveland
1900's: TR: TR
1910's: Taft/Wilson: Wilson
1920's: Harding/ Coolidge: Harding was actually more progressive than Silent Cal
1930's: Hoover/ FDR: FDR
1940's: FDR/ Truman: FDR
1950's: Truman/ Ike: Truman's first term was better than his second, so Ike
1960's: JFK/LBJ: Despite Vietnam (which was escalated by JFK), LBJ was one of the best domestic president's ever, LBJ
1970's: Nixon/Ford/Carter: I say Jimmy
1980's: Reagan/ Poppy Bush: narrowly Poppy
1990's: Poppy/ Clinton: Clinton
2000's: disasterous rein of Chimpy Bush

[pacalo]

1. Some decades don't have a "good" one.

I'll stick with what I know:

30s: FDR
40s: FDR
50s: DDE
60s: JFK/LBJ
70s: Carter
80s: ("Greed is good" era: layoffs first introduced into my industrial area; & industries began crushing employees' rights)
90s: Clinton
00s: (Too long to list why there isn't a "best")

[WI_DEM]

2. true, but I tried to pick the best of a poor lot.

[pacalo]

3. It's a good question. I'd like to see a 'thug answer it, listing the reasons

behind his/her answers, wouldn't you?

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