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 #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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