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Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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---------------------Reply to mail dated 14-MAY-1986 18:06---------------------

My rating is in column 2

I will rate each president with a 1 to 10.      And I thing it would be 
 
great ( That should be I THINK) to have opposing views on my thoughts.
 
 
George Washington    10       10 ;Unlike someone in another posting said it has
                                  nothing to do with his being first.  The fact
                                  of things he accomplished and would not allow
                                  is why I rate him so high.
 
John Adams           9        5 ;He was mediocre at worst or best.
 
Thomas Jefferson     8        8 ;Though as a political philospher I would rate
                                 him much higher
 
James Madison        6        6
 
James Monroe         7        4 ;Someone mentioned his great foriegn policy 
                                 which actually was the work of his Seceratery
                                 of State JQ Adams
 
John Q Adams         8        5
 
Andrew Jackson       8        5  One of the more dangerous presidents.  He 
                                 tended to ignore the constitution when ever
                                 he felt like it.
 
Martin Van Buren     5        5
 
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?
 
John Tyler           8        7
 
James K Polk         5        4
 
Zac. Taylor          4        4
  
Millard Filmore      6        4
 
Franklin Pierce      5        3
 
James Bucannon       3        6
 
Abraham Lincoln      10       10
 
Andrew Johnson       7        7  ;His biggest problem was he did not know how
                                  to compromise
 
U.S. Grant           1        1  ;decent general terrible president.
 
R B Hayes            7        5  ;he stole the election
 
James A Garfield     5 ????   5
 
Chester A Arthur     8        8
 
Grover Cleavland     7  1885-89 7
 
Benj. Harrison       4          3 ;He was to much of a wimp.  He bowed to
                                   congressional pressure without so much as a
                                   wimper
 
Grover Cleavland     5        7
 
William McKinley     6        5
 
Theodore Roosevelt   8        6
 
William H Taft       8        6
 
Woodrow Wilson       7        7
 
Warren G Harding     1        1
 
Calvin Coolidge      5        5
 
Herbert Hoover       5        6 ;He at least attempted to accomplish stuff
                                 unlike his predecessor
 
F D Roosevelt        9        9
 
Harry S Truman       8        8
 
D D Eisenhower(sp)   6        7
 
J F Kennedy          5        5
 
L B Johnson          5        4 ;I am a liberal but personally the Vietnam
                                 War and the Great Society were both great
                                 failures
 
Richard M Nixon      6        1 ;for no other reason then he disgraced the 
                                 office of the President.  I personally do
                                 not think he deserves any higher.
 
Gerald Ford          5        6 ;I think he was the soothing type of person
                                 the country needed after Nixon.
 
James E Carter       5        7; I like Jimmy and feel he Ford got stuck with a
                                 mess created by Kennedy Johnson and Nixon. 
                                 Mainly though the fault lies with Jonson and 
                                 Nixon.
 
Ronald Regan         6        8 and 3 ;The eight is for the ability to use the
                                       office the 3 for the policies he has 
                                       followed.

  
       Please share your views on this subject.
 
 
                                          Thanks    Jack Stanley



   Well here are my views.

        Brian Mahoney