who was the best president of America and why?

Answer 1

It would have to be Franklin Roosevelt. He was instrumental in bringing this country out of the Depression. I think he took over the country when it was in turmoil, and guided us to become the great nation that we are today.

Answer 2

There are actually two in my opinion. JFK who was a democrat, was a Conservative, and believed that people were the ones who knew better how to control their lives. In his speech, he said, " Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." He didn't believe in big government and taxing people to death. He would have been a two term President and a legacy at the end.

Ronald Reagan was another great President. He put more money in the working mans pocket, put people to work when business opened new factories and hired workers. He also was instrumental in the Iron Curtain coming down in Europe.

Under both of these men, the US economy grew and flourished for several years. When the working people have money in their pockets, they buy things, that puts workers to work to replace the goods that are sold.

When you tax people to support those not working, you become a drain, like a leach, sucking the life out of the working men and woman who pay their taxes and go off to work every day.

I don't care who the President is as long as they are conservative. Being a Conservative means you handle the countries business like most people do theirs at home. You don't spend money you don't have.

Answer 3

President Harry S. Truman. He took over after Roosevelt's death and kept the nation together in winning World War II. Little is it known that Truman, who told the Soviets, who had occupied Iran and Iraq, to get out, or they would be atom bombed as well Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The Soviets got ut, but little did they know that we did not have any A Bombs left. One last thing. Truman is the one who put on his desk "The buck stops here!"

Answer 4

There were several very good presidents...
George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Abe Lincoln,
Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, F.D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, James Madison...
I don't know who would be the single best as they all admirably faced their own set of trials & tribulations..
If I had to choose one, I suppose it would be George Washington.

Answer 5

Teddy Roosevelt.
HE was a Progressive Lincoln-style Republican who saw the need for parks to protect the commons, laws to protect against bullying corporate 'trusts', and the need to complete a canal to connect our East and West coasts with shipping and commerce which would complete the unification of our country. He also went against social customs to embrace the black community as much as he could, immediately inviting Booker T. Washington to Washington for DINNER (In broad daylight! GASP!).
He wasn't afraid to take on issues that were controversial, and he actually was intelligent enough to find actual solutions, rather than just making a bunch of fake news stories pretending to be doing something.

Answer 6

During the last 100 years, FDR, no mistake.

Visionary social programmes, humane decision to enter WW2.

Unsurprisingly, Republican presidents of the last 100 years are noticeably absent. Anyone for Nixon, Reagan, a Bush?

Answer 7

James Carter. He seemed the most honest. The most socially responsible, and the most open to the ideals of democracy. His foreign policy advanced a peace treaty in the middle east. I just liked him.

The most colorful and enjoyable was William Jefferson Clinton. I enjoyed him. He tried to be progressive and get a national health care policy, but NO, the republicans didn't want that kind of humane equity. If you can't afford to be sick, then darn it stay well!
He also left a balanced budget for the first time in how many presidencies? We like to forget about that. What's our deficit now?

Bill was a good man. Monica L. and voyers like Ken Starr be darned.

Answer 8

Lincoln. He was brilliant and courageous, and embodies the best of the American spirit. He walked a fine line for years, trying to keep this nation in one piece. He was Comander in Chief during the Civil War, and he won it. He freed the slaves (for political reasons rather than humanist, but he did it). And he wrote some of the finest documents in US history.

Answer 9

It depends on which time in our history you are speaking about.
Each President had moments of greatness.Lincoln, Truman
are the ones I would pick.

Answer 10

Thomas Jefferson. He wrote the Declaration of Independence and had one of the sharpest minds in Presidential history.

The worst President: GW Bush.