President #40, C-SPAN Historians ranking #10 40 is the new -30- Of the nine Presidents who have been in office in my lifetime, none had the impact that Ronald Reagan has had. Ronald Reagan succeeded in transforming not just the office of the Presidency, but also the nature of how politics and government is viewed [...]
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President #33, C-SPAN Historians ranking #5 The Dewey Decimator If you were alive on April 12, 1945 and learned that Harry S. Truman had become President of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, you likely would not have been filled with confidence. Truman was a relatively unknown former Senator from Missouri. He [...]
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