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From: figmo@atari.UUcp (Lynn Gold)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.rumor
Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 18:40:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 18:40:17 1986
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In article <133@petrus.UUCP>, jfs@petrus.UUCP (Jack Stanley) writes:
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> I will rate each president with a 1 to 10.      And I thing it would be 
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> great ( That should be I THINK) to have opposing views on my thoughts.
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> George Washington    10
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> John Adams           9
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> Thomas Jefferson     8
Just curious as to why Jefferson gets lower than Adams.  Jefferson was
responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
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> James Madison        6
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> James Monroe         7
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> John Q Adams         8
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> Andrew Jackson       8
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> Martin Van Buren     5
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> William H Harrison   can't even guess, but he was pretty much a creation
>                      of the Wig party, so the rating would have been low maybe?
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> John Tyler           8
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> James K Polk         5
ONLY a 5????  Only one dissenting vote was cast in the electoral
college against him; this was because the "dissenter" wanted
Washington to be the only president to have been elected unanimously.
I'd give the man an 8 or 9 at least!
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> Zac. Taylor          4
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> Millard Filmore      6
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> Franklin Pierce      5
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> James Bucannon       3
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> Abraham Lincoln      10
Lincoln is overrated.  He only abolished slavery in the SOUTHERN
states.  The northern states were "free" to have slaves (sounds like a
contradiction of terms..."free slaves" :-) ).
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> Andrew Johnson       7
Johnson deserves an 8.  He wasn't popular because he was a southerner
against slavery who stayed with the Union.
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> U.S. Grant           1
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> R B Hayes            7
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> James A Garfield     5 ????
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> Chester A Arthur     8
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> Grover Cleavland     7  1885-89
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> Benj. Harrison       4
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> Grover Cleavland     5
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> William McKinley     6
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> Theodore Roosevelt   8
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> William H Taft       8
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> Woodrow Wilson       7
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> Warren G Harding     1
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> Calvin Coolidge      5
Give the guy a 6; he was popular in his time.  Nothing happened, so he
did nothing. :-)
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> Herbert Hoover       5
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> F D Roosevelt        9
You give Lincoln a 10 and FDR only a 9???  FDR had the chance to turn
our country into a dictatorship (some sort of state-of-emergency
thing) and decided not to.  The man got us out of the Great Depression.
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> Harry S Truman       8
Give the man a 9.  He had a tough (and unpopular) job to do, and he
did it.  FDR was not an easy act to follow, and jumping in during WWII
wasn't an easy task.
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> D D Eisenhower(sp)   6
Too high for a man who had never voted in his life before his own
election.  This was a man who encouraged Joseph McCarthy, Richard
Nixon and the "witch hunts" of the '50's.  This is the man whose
morality inspires Jerry Falwell and his ilk.  I'd give him a 2 at best.
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> J F Kennedy          5
Give JFK a 7.  He screwed up Bay of Pigs, but he started special
education and civil rights programs.  He was also a supporter of the
space program and of physical fitness.  The man was ahead of his time.
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> L B Johnson          5
5?????  YOU rate EISENHOWER better than LBJ?????  This man continued
JFK's work, especially in the areas of civil rights and the space
program.  He'd get a 9 if he hadn't escalated Vietnam; for that, I'd
knock him to a 7 or 8.
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> Richard M Nixon      6
I'd give him a 4.  Nixon was excellent in foreign policy matters, but
really screwed up on the home front.  Nixon had a study done on the
same little piece of law that FDR chose not to implement to see how
feasible it was to take over the country.  Had it not been for that
study I'd have given him a 5.
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> Gerald Ford          5
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> James E Carter       5
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> Ronald Regan         6
It's Ronald REAGAN, and I'd give him a 4.  He's screwed up our foreign
policy (we got along with foreign powers much better before he took
office than we do now), he's screwed up our domestic affairs (no more
college loans, increased unemployment, more people on welfare, etc.).
I'd give him a 3 except that for some reason he's popular.
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--Lynn


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