President #19, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #33 He’s very big in Paraguay Rutherford Birchard Hayes was, by all accounts, an intelligent and honest man who made his way to the White House in the most controversial fashion of any President until George W. Bush. Despite his personal integrity, his reputation from historians has taken a beating. [...]
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President #18, C-SPAN historians’ ranking #23 Read this unconditionally Americans have never been shy about making their military heroes Presidents. They have ranged from the great (George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt) to pretty darn good (Andrew Jackson and Dwight Eisenhower) to the quickly dead (William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor). Ulysses S. Grant was undoubtedly [...]
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President #25, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #16 The War With Spain Starts Mainly With the Maine While many kids grew up with toy soldiers, my childhood featured a set of plastic toy Presidents. (And much to my glee, a complete set is on display at the Smithsonian now. It includes an intact Lyndon Johnson. Our LBJ [...]
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You should put some Bactine on that President #20, C-SPAN Historians ranking #28 James Garfield served as President from March 4 through September 19, 1881, the second shortest tenure of any person to hold the office. Garfield’s assassination was tragic, although the most tragic part was not the violence perpetrated by Charles Guiteau, but rather [...]
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