Best US president of the last 100 years?

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Best President of last 100 years?

  1. WIlson

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  2. Harding

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. Coolidge

    3 vote(s)
    5.1%
  4. Hoover

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. FDR

    16 vote(s)
    27.1%
  6. Truman

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  7. Ike

    4 vote(s)
    6.8%
  8. JFK

    4 vote(s)
    6.8%
  9. LBJ

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  10. Nixon

    2 vote(s)
    3.4%
  11. Ford

    1 vote(s)
    1.7%
  12. Carter

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  13. Reagan

    25 vote(s)
    42.4%
  14. GH BUsh

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  15. Clinton

    1 vote(s)
    1.7%
  16. GW Bush

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  17. Obama

    3 vote(s)
    5.1%
  1. Reasonablerob

    Reasonablerob Well-Known Member

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    Definitely not but he has much more rapport with the ordinary voter than many in the Washington establishment.
     
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    What FDR didn't get from Hitler was to stabilize the money supply. In Germany, the problem was hyperinflation. In the US, the problem was deflation. Milton Friedman, in his Nobel-Prize-winning-tome A Monetary History of the United States, showed how deflation during the 1930s took what would have been a short, sharp correction and turned it into years and years of economic stagnation.

    We got the rah-rah treatment of the TVA in high school history class, but more recently I read an address by a Republican congressman at the time who pointed out that the federal government could have bought out everyone in the Tennessee Valley and moved them where electricity was already available for less than the cost of the project. It wasn't such a good thing after all.
     
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    Drunk mistake?

    LOL, you think a bunch of guys sat around drinking and decided to break into the Watergate hotel.
    No planning involved but what they came up with while drunk. Hilarious.
     
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    No planning just a case of mistaken hotel after a night out.
     
  5. Reasonablerob

    Reasonablerob Well-Known Member

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    And so unnecessary, Nixon trounced McGovern.
     
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    Sure, it was. The silly congressperson would have had the whole eight state region "cleansed" by massive government intervention. The cost would have been much higher in lives and money than the project that has added immeasurable quality to the lives of four generations.
     
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    Indeed.
     
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    LOL. Great joke.
     
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    He was worried, for some reason. At least based on a move I saw.
     
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    He was worried about his friends. Decent people try to help out their friends in times of trouble and he was lambasted for being an upstanding person with ethics.
     
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    Nope. Not even a good try.
     
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    My age puts me at a disadvantage. I really wasn't around then, but I voted for Eisenhower. He presided over our best times in the past 100 years.

    Second would be Reagan. Third is Nixon.

    Greatest disappointment would be Clinton. He had the skills and ability to have been a Mt. Rushmore caliber President, but he pissed it away with his narcissism.
     
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    Easy Peasy
    when rebuilding Europe and Japan and other war destroyed areas are a market!
    It just took that Truman time to loosen the lid. Convert industries away from the machines of war.
    Korea was a BRAVO.

    Freeways would have been a dream from his early army days when he discovered just how hard it was to drive a convoy of army trucks across the nation. Too bad he didn't design it into rail instead of parallel. I remember the freeways being built in California and people forced to sell their home, and of course never feeling they got a proper price.
    NASA good move.
    Foreign Policy of Containment, bad move when it encouraged over throw of democratically elected governments and such interventions.

    FDR keeps my vote. He had a nation in economic stagnancy and brought hope.
    Wisdom of the Manhattan Project. etc.


    Don't worry, I voted Obama the worst President in the other thread.
    See the wisdom of #50 there!
     
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    Ranking presidents the greatest is too simple of a concept. Most presidents have had accomplishments, while having drawbacks as well.
    JFK for example, prevented a nuclear war, even though his own generals were chomping at the bit to start WW3. But, he also signed off on the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He also expanded American involvement in Vietnam.
    LBJ is credited with continuing JFK’s civil rights acts, but escalated Vietnam to the point of no return.
    Nxion ended the Vietnam war, and made diplomatic inroads to China, but escalated the war on drugs, and thought himself above the law.
    Carter had the Camp David Accords, but was stuck with a stagnant economy, and was ultimately brought down by the Iran Hostage ordeal.
     
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    Well, a very clear victory for Ronald Reagan.
     
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    This is bullcrap. Trump isnt on the list.....
     
  17. JakeStarkey

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    Why would he be, since his term is not done?
     

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