Top five best presidents in U.S. History?
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1. Abraham Lincoln--kept the nation together in its most difficult time and was comitted to stopping the spread of slavery.\n\n2. George Washington--gave the country a chance to grow and set many precedents for the future of the country.\n\n3. Franklin Roosevelt--Saw the country through the Great Depression and World War II, promoted essential anti-poverty measures.\n\n4. Harry Truman--Established the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan (both would prove critical in ending the Cold War), integrated the Army and put the Civil Rights movement on the national stage.\n\n5. Thomas Jefferson--Doubled the size of the country with the Louisiana Purchase and ensured that the government stayed in the hands of the people.
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1George Washington, \n \n 2John Adams, \n \n 3Thomas Jefferson, \n \n 4James Madison,  \n \n 5James Monroe, \n \n 6John Quincy Adams, \n \n 7Andrew Jackson, \n \n 8Martin Van Buren,\n \n 9William H Harrison,\n \n 10John Tyler,\n \n 11James K Polk, \n \n 12Zachary Taylor, \n \n 13Millard Fillmore,\n \n 14Franklin Pierce,\n \n 15James Buchanan,\n \n 16Abraham Lincoln, \n \n 17Andrew Johnson, \n \n 18Ulysses S Grant,\n \n 19Rutherford B Hayes, \n \n 20James A Garfield, \n \n 21Chester A. Arthur, \n \n 22Grover Cleveland,\n \n 23Benjamin Harrison, \n \n 24Grover Cleveland, \n \n 25William McKinley,\n \n 26Theodore Roosevelt, \n \n 27William H. Taft,\n \n 28Woodrow Wilson, \n \n 29Warren G. Harding,\n \n 30Calvin Coolidge,\n \n 31Herbert Hoover,\n \n 32Franklin D Roosevelt,\n \n 33Harry S. Truman, \n \n 34Dwight D Eisenhower,\n \n 35John F Kennedy, \n \n 36Lyndon B   Johnson, \n \n 37RichardN. Nixon, \n \n 38Gerald R Ford, \n \n 39James E Carter,\n \n 40RonaldW. Reagan, \n \n 41George Herbert W. Bush, \n \n 42Bill Clinton,\n \n 43 George Walker Bush
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/\n\nGo to the site above and find the presidents you are looking for.
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Five Worst Presidents   \nJames Buchanan\nAndrew Johnson\nFranklin Pierce\nWarren G. Harding\nWilliam Henry Harrison\nCourtesy: C-SPAN
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1->Mississippi,Minnesota, Montana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minchigan, Missouri, Maryland.\n2->George Washington, Albraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Andrwe Jackson, George Bush, Theodore Roosevelt, James madison...???\n3->Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Virginia...???\n4->Speaker??\n5->at least 35 years old\n6->Legislative, Executive, Judicical\n7->2\n8->Patrick Henry??
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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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Best = tie between Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt\nWorse = George W. Bush; without fail and or reservations.
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It's a toss-up between three:  FDR, Washington, and Lincoln.\nFDR, because even though he did things that nowadays would have everyone screaming "IMPEACH!" he led our country effectively out of the Great Depression, and his leadership during WWII was extraordinary.  Also, his "fireside chats" are legendary, and they were a huge comfort to those who lived in those tumultuous times.  The things he did "wrong" e.g. "allowing" the attack on Pearl Harbor, and putting the Japanese into concentration camps, are mostly forgotten in light of his accomplishments.\nWashington, for obvious reasons stated by other answerers.  Even though he was a slave owner.\nLincoln, because he MADE the country unite on a sensitive issue...even though it's what caused the civil war.  We turned out the better for it though, didn't we?\nI think all three of them would be rolling over in their graves if they could see what the American people have become.  They were proud patriots, who loved this country.  I'm just glad they weren't criticized for their shortcomings like our current president is for his.  If they were, the country would have fallen apart, or slavery would still be legal, or we would all be speaking German and bowing down before statues of Hitler.  Or all three.
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James J. Polk\n\nChronology:\nPresidents of the United States of America  \nWashington • J Adams • Jefferson • Madison • Monroe • JQ Adams • Jackson • Van Buren • W Harrison • Tyler • Polk • Taylor • Fillmore • Pierce • Buchanan • Lincoln • A Johnson • Grant • Hayes • Garfield • Arthur • Cleveland • B Harrison • Cleveland • McKinley • T Roosevelt • Taft • Wilson • Harding • Coolidge • Hoover • F Roosevelt • Truman • Eisenhower • Kennedy • L Johnson • Nixon • Ford • Carter • Reagan • GHW Bush • Clinton • GW Bush
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George Washington\nJohn Adams\nThomas Jefferson\nJames Madison\nMillard Fillmore\nJohn Q. Adams\nAndrew Jackson\nMartin Van Buren .... uh, this is where the song we sang in junior high gets fuzzy, so digging now, in no particular order:\nGeorge W Bush\nBill Clinton\nGeorge Bush\nRonald Reagan\nGerald Ford\nJimmy Carter\nRichard Nixon\nJohn F. Kennedy\nFranklin Roosevelt\nTheodore Roosevelt\nHarry Truman\nAbraham Lincoln\nWilliam Taft\nCalvin Coolidge\nWilliam Henry Harrison\nDwight Eisenhower\nUlysses Grant\n\nAnd I'm spent.... that's what? 25? Wow... that sucks - I'm going to go look the rest up now.
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Good in no particular order\n-Washington, led us through the early times\n-Lincoln, Civil War (maybe...he did suspend habeus corpus, though)\n-Truman, "The buck stops here"\n-Teddy Roosevelt, decent foreign policy\n\nBad in no particular order\n-Pierce, supported slaveowners and basically led to the Civil War\n-Buchanan, did nothing to even try to prevent the Civil War\n-Andrew Johnson, could have been minor but he violated the Tenure of Office Act to get impeached and he was horrible with reconstruction\n-Hoover, he was ineffective in preventing the Depression or helping to get out of it.\n-possibly Carter, but he's starting to get too recent, bad domestic policy with the economy, foreign policy allowed Communism into Central American.  And Iran didn't help either.  He also was doing foreign policy against the current administration after he left office.\n\nI'm not touching the recent presidents because it hasn't been long enough to get a good perspective.  I don't think we've had 10 *outstanding* presidents.
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Though Lincoln, Jefferson, and Reagan are good choices, I think you'd have to give it to Washington because he lead the country in its infancy and he had nothing to go on.  He basically had to make it up as he went along.  He had no history to fall back on, and no standards to comfort him.
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Often credited with being the first  "modern president". Rough Riders. Panama Canal. Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the war between Russia and Japan. One of America's greatest presidents.
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15. James Buchanan\n23. Benjamin Harrison\n32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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not in list form but here you go: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html \n\nalso wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson (has a triva section)
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John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson and Gerald Ford.  That's nine.  That's all I can think of.
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1.George Washington, 1789-1797 \n2.John Adams, 1797-1801 \n3.Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 \n4.James Madison, 1809-1817 \n5.James Monroe, 1817-1825 \n6.John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 \n7.Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837 \n8.Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 \n9.William Henry Harrison, 1841 \n10.John Tyler, 1841-1845 \n11.James Knox Polk, 1845-1849 \n12.Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850 \n13.Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 \n14.Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 \n15.James Buchanan, 1857-1861 \n16.Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 \n17.Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869 \n18.Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877 \n19.Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 \n20.James Abram Garfield, 1881 \n21.Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 \n22.Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 \n23.Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 \n24.Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 \n25.William McKinley, 1897-1901 \n26.Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 \n27.William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 \n28.Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 \n29.Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 \n30.Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 \n31.Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 \n32.Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 \n33.Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 \n34.Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 \n35.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 \n36.Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 \n37.Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 \n38.Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 \n39.James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 \n40.Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 \n41.George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 \n42.William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 \n43.George Walker Bush, 2001-