President #33, C-SPAN Historians ranking #5 The Dewey Decimator If you were alive on April 12, 1945 and learned that Harry S. Truman had become President of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, you likely would not have been filled with confidence. Truman was a relatively unknown former Senator from Missouri. He [...]
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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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