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From: apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent)
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Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 19:50:04 EDT
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In article <278@atari.UUcp> figmo@atari.UUcp (Lynn Gold) writes:
>In article <133@petrus.UUCP>, jfs@petrus.UUCP (Jack Stanley) writes:
>> I will rate each president with a 1 to 10. And I think it would be 
>> great to have opposing views on my thoughts.

I'll stick to modern ones. 

>> 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.

0  Took what he assessed as a "1/3 to 1/2 chance of a nuclear war"
   to defend the principle that America could put missiles on the Soviet
   Union's borders but not vice versa. 

>> 
>> 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.

0  How many people were slaughtered in Vietnam?

>> 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.

0  Vietnam continued. 

>> Gerald Ford          5

3  I can't think of any major atrocities committed by this man.

>> James E Carter       5

8  The one decent human being to become U.S. president since 1945. The only
   one to attempt (however patchily) to formulate a moral foreign policy.
   
>> 
>> 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.

0  In foreign policy an evil and dangerous warmonger; domestically an
   enemy of the poor and of what's left of America's democratic 
   tradition.