who was our best Vice President?  and why?
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Al Gore was pretty good but the first vice president, John Adams who became the 2nd president of the US was a noble and compassionate man who helped form this country.  so i think he was the best.
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Most: Mandela, I guess, because he was my president and he was a truly great man\n\nLeast: Nixon, for being a liar, murderer and power crazed psycopath, though any of the PNAC chicken hawks come in a close second. \n\nAs for Mr 'Standing his ground above', whatever happened to "we will catch bin laden... (eight months later:) We don't know where he is, he isn't a priority...
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Hard times can make a great President.  Lincoln is considered great because of what he accomplished in a very bad time.  He freed the slaves and brought the country back together.\n\nPolitics can color judgement on this too.  FDR is considered great by Democrats.  He certainly changed the way our nation operates.  And I would concede that he was a great wartime President.\n\nBut, being a conservative, I'm going to have to say that Reagan was the best.  He changed the world by bankrupting European communism.  He had some success in deregulating our country, and his economic policies never get enough credit for pulling our country out of the stagflation trap of the late 70's.
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The best choice would be John Edwards. Giulliani has a lot of baggage and McCain sold out a long time ago.
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I'm guessing either Fox or Harper. President Bush is acutally the healthest President that the United States has seen. (According to historians/phsyicans.) Also Fox was a CEO of Coca-Cola, and we all know soda isn't healthly. As for Harper I haven't heard any information.
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Reagan by far.  Why?  He changed the global landscape during his term and brought us way back from the brink of "the Cold War", a very dangerous time in our history.\n\nYes, other presidents endured WWWI & WWII, Vietnam, and the Korean Wars, but the Cold War could have ended in oblivion for most of the human race.\n\nA great man and will always be remembered for what he did.\n\nBiggest disappointment?  Clinton, hands down.  He was the ONLY president to be impeached (aside from Nixon) and heaped shame upon the dignified office of the pres.  He could have ended his terms as one of the greats, and at the end, showed his true colors and gave all that away for a one night stand....a country bumpkin from Arkansas with a drunk for a brother and a dynsfunctional family.  Shame.
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I would say FDR. Because of helping to get the US out of the depression and creating Social Security. Even though it's that great it sure helps. And the only President to go three terms.
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Actually - I'd agree with the nomination of Colin Powell. He was an honest man in a den of liars. He did his duty as best he could, and then got the hell out of there. He's made his displeasure known, to a degree, but hasn't gone out of his way to trash the administration. In general, he seems like a class act.
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I agree with most of your comments.\n\nI agree that Truman was one of the best.  He, above all other things, accepted responisibility for his actions and wanted the President to be a man of unquestioned integrity.\n\nFor that reason, I believe the two Bushes to be the worst.  Neither has shown any desire to be a President that would make the American people proud.  All three of their combined terms have been marked by avoidance of responibility and the pursuit of personal interests over the good of the country.\n\nKennedy was overrated.  Didn't really do very many things well.  He relied almost completely on charisma.\n\nCarter was in way over his head and deserves to be among the worst, but has been a great ex-president.  I think he deserves some respect for his dipomacy and charity work since leaving office.\n\nRight on about Harding and Silent Cal.  I am torn on Clinton, although the country was relatively peace and prosperous during his tenure, I think much of the credit goes to Congress and gridlock rather than his own actions.  And he didn't have a strong sence of honour and integrity.\n\nI noticed you left off FDR and LBJ.  Both of whom were inexplicably popular.  FDR had good luck and charisma, JBL had bad luck and charisma.  I would put FDR on the best list, but not very high.  The circumstances surrounding his presidency would have made anyone look good.  Johnson belongs on the worst list in my opinion.  Although he did much good, he chose to sacrifice thousands of lives in Vietnam rather than make the unpopular decision to pull them out.
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Pele` without a doubt was THE BEST. Following hin very, very far one from Eusebio - George Best - Sivori: it only depends from personal opinion.
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George W. Bush is the Best President Ever
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Clinton.  He has a far more engaging personality, and is considerably more intelligent.  His personal ethics may not be the best, but as a diplomat I would much rather be represented by him than George Bush.
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Becasue he is the best we got
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Ronald Reagan.  Because no matter how corrupt his cabinet was, people still liked him.  He also got away with kicking a lot of terrorist ***, and he helped end the cold war.
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History and time will tell.  It's too early to answer that question.  It's hard to point to one President who was the worst - there were many rather insignificant Presidents.  Ulysses Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, and Cleveland all served during one of the most corrupt eras in U.S. history - I would probably start with one of these men.
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DeKlerk of South Africa because he had the guts to free the blacks in a white society.\n\nWinston Churchill of Great Britain because he stood strong against Nazi Germany and was the last free nation involved in WWII.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt of the USA because even with in a wheelchair he was able to guide the USA out of the Great Depression and win WWII.
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Vice President Dick Cheney