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Smartest and Dumbest Presidents List

CaptainCourtesy said:
I don't know about GHWB, but I suspect you are correct. In my lifetime, the two Presidents that I thought were, intellectually, the smartest were Nixon and Clinton.

And I agree. Ford always gets a bad rap. To me he was one of the most underrated Presidents. I wish he had beaten Carter. Bet he would have done better.
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Perceptions often trump reality. The press made the very tall Ford look clumsy by running a couple clips of him bumping his head in airplane doorways or falling on level 5 ski slopes

FBI and SS agents assigned to his detail were a select group (above normal for such elites) because they had to find agents who could give Ford a good tennis game or ski with him. I knew an old gentleman named Eddie Moylan who was a Davis cup team member and later Ken Rosewall's coach. He was- in the early 80s reputed to be the best 65 year old player in the USA and could still play with
the varsity players at the university where he taught tennis. He said Ford was very very good for a man his age.
 
TurtleDude said:
Perceptions often trump reality. The press made the very tall Ford look clumsy by running a couple clips of him bumping his head in airplane doorways or falling on level 5 ski slopes

FBI and SS agents assigned to his detail were a select group (above normal for such elites) because they had to find agents who could give Ford a good tennis game or ski with him. I knew an old gentleman named Eddie Moylan who was a Davis cup team member and later Ken Rosewall's coach. He was- in the early 80s reputed to be the best 65 year old player in the USA and could still play with
the varsity players at the university where he taught tennis. He said Ford was very very good for a man his age.
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I've done a bit of reading about Ford over the past few years. I have a huge amount of respect for his pardoning of Nixon (which was in the best interest of the country), even though he knew it would destroy his political career. I would have liked to see what he would have done instead of Carter. One thing is, I don't think the Iranian hostage situation would have turned out the way that it did.

Oh, and people forget that Ford was an exceptional athlete.
 
I think the list is tainted. It seems that the author did no research and just pulled names out of his memory. With Presidents like Zachary Taylor, William Polk, James Buchanon and several others that were nothing more than talking heads behind the likes of Ronald Reagan is just absurd. His theories and policies are still being debated today and many would argue that he was correct.
 
ksu_aviator said:
I think the list is tainted. It seems that the author did no research and just pulled names out of his memory. With Presidents like Zachary Taylor, William Polk, James Buchanon and several others that were nothing more than talking heads behind the likes of Ronald Reagan is just absurd. His theories and policies are still being debated today and many would argue that he was correct.
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Except the guys that made his policies for him in the first place, which have been apologizing for them the past year.
 
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