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DP Greatest and Worst US President

there are two actual parameters

best/worst-based on what they accomplished in terms of campaign promises and best/worst on how their policies impacted the USA

FDR is a "great president" based on the first measurement and an awful president based on his contempt for the constitutional restrictions placed on the federal government. The same is true with wilson and LBJ

those three did more damage to the country than corrupt ineffective presidents like Harding, Grant, or just plain failures like Carter (not corrupt, just impotent)

NIxon was corrupt and Watergate was a mess but Nixon's long term impact on the USA was far better than many other presidents-his recognition of Red china might have been the single most brilliant FP decision any president has made in the last 60 years.

I think the most underrated president in the last 100 years was Gerald Ford. He knew he was going to lose the election by pardoning Nixon but he saved the country a tremendous amount of pain by doing that and he was personally impeccable when it came to honesty-which was exactly what the country needed after Nixon.

Failures in terms of their accomplishments

Harding
Grant (who was a good man surrounded by crooks)
Buchanan
Carter
Harrison (due to dying so soon)
Andrew Johnson

worst based on their impact to the USA

FDR
Wilson
LBJ
Obama

Best based on achieving their goals

Nixon
FDR
Jefferson
Washington
Ike
LBJ

Best in terms of what they did for the USA

Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Lincoln
Truman
Ike
Reagan
 
Jimmy Carter was worse than the likes of James Buchanan, LBJ and Andrew Jackson?

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NIXON?

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Jackson wasn't as bad as you think. He did a lot of good. Including spreading the right to vote to a larger number of people. He may have done some bad things to the Indians, but he did a lot for America.
 
Best: Lincoln

Worst: Buchanan
 
Best:
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. George Washington

Worst:
1. James Buchanan
2. George W. Bush
3. Richard Nixon

The best presidents are defined by the challenges they faced, and how they strove to overcome them.

The worst presidents are defined by the challenges they faced, and how they tried to avoid them.
 
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