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 #37, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #27 I’m going to count to 10, if you don’t like this post, just stop reading before I get to 10 Richard Milhous Nixon was the first President I ever knew. He became President when I was three years old. He left office when I was all of eight. To [...]
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President #31, C-SPAN Historians ranking #34 The Pac-10 goes to the White House and is not Invited Back Herbert Hoover seemingly had everything you would want from a President. He was well-educated, with a degree in geology from Stanford. He had traveled the world. He was a successful businessman. He showed he could organize people [...]
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