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Ranking of U S presidents offers few surprises
A scholarly study rates presidents from Washington to Reagan, grouping them as great near great above average average below average and failure. Washington Lincoln and F D Roosevelt top the list. Bush Clinton Eisenhower and Reagan are among near great or above average but recent decades show many average or worse ratings. Timothy Watch of the Hoover Library notes uncertainty about Bush's final ranking.
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Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
Reagan
Bush
Clinton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
White House
George W. Bush
William Henry Harrison
James A. Garfield
Harrison
Garfield
Northwestern University
James Lindgren
Lindgren
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Harry Truman
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Truman
Wilson
Kennedy
Johnson
Herbert Hoover
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Hoover
Iraq
Middle East