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 #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 #14, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #40 At least Nathaniel Hawthorne liked him Franklin Pierce is a very difficult president to read about. There weren’t many biographies written about him. A man named Peter Wallner wrote a two volume biography of Pierce that was published between 2004 and 2007. However, that was two too many volumes [...]
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President #11, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #12 Looks Like My Work Here is Done Between the time of Andrew Jackson and before the time of Abraham Lincoln, American Presidents were an undistinguished lot, to put it kindly. No one served more than one term. Most are forgotten. However, one man in the job managed to stand [...]
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