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 #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 [...]
Filed under: Reconstruction Presidents | Tagged: Republicans, Ohio, Civil War veteran, Face on paper money, Mexican War, Illinois | 6 Comments »
President #16, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #1 The Standard Back when I was in eighth grade, I entered an American history essay contest at a local prep school. The winner would receive a partial scholarship to the school. It was actually a timed test in a classroom setting and we didn’t know what the question would [...]
Filed under: Mount Rushmore Presidents | Tagged: Assassinated, Face on paper money, Guys who really liked Henry Clay, Illinois, Kentucky, Representative, Republicans, Whig Party | 4 Comments »
