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 of 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 by [...]
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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 me, he [...]
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President #34, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #8
It’s Been Said That People Liked This Guy
When I was a kid in the 1970s, the 1950s were considered a cool time. “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” dominated television. Coming out of the turbulent 1960s (a decade glamorized in much different way from the 1950s), the 1950s were a [...]
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President #36, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #11
In Treatment
Lyndon Baines Johnson was President for just a little over five years. However, if you try to read some of the biographies that have written about him, you may feel like you need five years to get through all of them.
Robert Caro has written three volumes of a biography [...]
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