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Originally posted by dig420@Jul 27 2004, 04:48 PM
He already IS considered a top President in the judgement of any historian who's taken seriously by academicians
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I don't know about that, Dig. The surveys of historians I've seen so far since his presidency have him ranked somewhere in the middle. I think he was a fine president but to be in the top 25% one has to be better than a list something like the following; Washington, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Jefferson, Truman, Madison, Kennedy, Jackson, and Wilson. I think that makes him an average president.
I think Reagan and Clinton were the best presidents post-Kennedy but I doubt that either is going to be that highly regarded in 100 years. Their presidencies were too uneventful.