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Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with their own administration. [10] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on ...
Nobel Peace Prize winner, well-known conservationist and the bespectacled face on Mount Rushmore, President Teddy Roosevelt consistently ranks among the top presidents in U.S. history.
In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were first conducted by George Gallup (estimated to be 1937) to gauge public support for the president of the United States during their term. An approval rating is a percentage determined by polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a ...
The annual Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey ranked Pres. Biden at 14th greatest of all time, with former Pres. Trump coming in last.
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
President Bush, Secretary Powell, Advisor Rice, and Secretary Rumsfeld. First president born in Connecticut. [260] First president to have an MBA. [449] First president to have a State of the Union live broadcast on the Internet. [450] First president to have a 90% approval rating in the history of modern political polling. [451]