Who do feel wast he best President in our nation's history so far?

Question

This for my fellow Americans.

Answer 1

Lincoln...of course.

And to a lesser degree both of the Roosevelts.

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson/ John Adams and the rest is all history. I will say JFK was about the only open minded man with a plan for progress ever the others just climbed up on the forefathers shoulders and shouted. But John Kennedy had his own thoughts and good ones, war hero, and he was a real hero he was alive and came home on the winning side. Read Profiles of Courage by JFK. You will see then read Jefferson and Adams similarities are galore for freedom and creative forces as well.

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 4

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times. Although the law has changed (limiting terms to two terms), I don't know if we'll ever find another person who the American people would want to keep in office that long.

Answer 5

Lincon

Answer 6

Washington.

Answer 7

John F Kennedy and Bill Clinton.

Answer 8

William Jefferson Clinton! Who should have been followed by Al Gore and we would have a much better world situation.

Answer 9

In my lifetime (of 26 years) I must say Bill Clinton. But, in the history of the US, I will say Lincoln.

Answer 10

Reagan was by far the best President.

He took over the leadership of our country at a time when everyone was disillusioned about the future. No one had much confidence about things getting better. It was a time when people looked around their aging, smallish, suburban home, with the smelly, shabby shag carpeting, the avocado green appliances in the kitchen, and the rusting car out on the driveway, and suddenly the American Dream seemed like a tragic nightmare.

Salaries were stagnant. Jobs were scarce. Russia seemed to be unstoppable, and President Carter and others in government seemed to be preparing us for the day when the USSR would start dictating its will to the U.S. Liberals started talking nonsense about "Moral Equivalency" (saying Communism had as many virtues as Capitalism).

Then Reagan appeared on the scene, like John Wayne ready to save the beleagured fort from certain attack by hordes of savage indians. He told us that our best days were yet to come, that America was strong and that we were smart enough to solve any problem that came our way.

Suddenly, people who had lost all faith started to feel more confident and hopeful about the future.

When I travelled internationally during Reagan's Presidency, America's reputation was at its peak. America was admired around the globe They liked us, and respected us.

If Reagan hadn't been President at precise moment in history, I have no doubt that Russia would have continued getting stronger and stronger. They had been growing inexorably, gaining ground from Africa to Central America. No place seemed safe from Communism. The Soviet Politburo must have been grinning from ear to ear.

But when Reagan took the reigns of command in the U.S., the Soviet leaders stopped smiling. They were worried. Reagan seemed as impenetrable and unassailable as a wall of steel 10 feet thick. Reagan's tactic was to bankrupt the Soviets with an arms race. His strategy worked.

Without Reagan, the Soviets would be the pre-eminent power in the world. We owe him our greatest gratitude.