--please explain your answer sufficiently to justify your choice.
[not interested in activiities out of office for this Q]
2007-01-21 05:22:50 · 8 answers · asked by Ursus Particularies 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
well Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the peace between Russia and Japan and ending the Russ-Japanese War, and Franklin Roosevelt defeated the fascist so I would think it would have to be one of those two.
You could also make a serious case for Lincoln because the end of slavery in America was long over due and the feelings of the abolitionist lead to a revolt of the peasants in Russia and the end of the final European Serf system when Tsar Alexander the II was forces to free the serfs.
It is naive to think that Regan had anything to do with the end of the Soviet domination. Pope John Paul II was much more influential in that and American credit would need to be shared by every US President from Truman to GH Bush so it would not be a one man kind of thing
Washington as well could get some credit. If he has not stepped down after his second term and instead had accepted the offers to make himself King (which were seriously on the table) then the whole course of American and world history would have been radically different
2007-01-21 05:33:04 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think Bill Clinton is the most recent and FDR would be second. Both were inspirational speakers, both ran the country and dug it out of deep whole and that effects the world. Both were environmentally conscious, and Clinton did much in the way of trying to settle the problems in the middle east without warfare.
2007-01-21 05:29:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
frankly, i can't answer your question. (it requires a lot more thought than i've put into it right now.)
i just wanted to say that it is not the job of a US President to improve the world. the job of a US President is to uphold our constitution, and lead our country.
now if you'd like to know who was the best at that, i'll have to get back to you after thinking it over.
2007-01-21 07:13:16 · answer #3 · answered by political junkie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ronald Reagan, hands down. His administration put the finishing touches on winning the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union as a communist state was the reward.
2007-01-21 05:26:26 · answer #4 · answered by Team Chief 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Richard M. Nixon...however I will not site specifics because you should do your own homework...however I have given you a lead to investigate. Now start your homework!
2007-01-21 05:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ronald Reagan...
Dismantled Soviet Union Dictatorship without firing a shot...
2007-01-21 05:30:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nixon was a genius on foreign affairs, Look it up.
2007-01-21 05:28:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
FDR
2007-01-21 05:27:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋