who was best president ever of modern era? could kennedy have been if he lived?

Question

reagan? didn't he change policies that increased the homeless population 1,500% ?

Answer 1

i think kennedy was the best since world war two and FDR just based on his handling of the cuban missile crisis without him in office nuclear war probably would of occured and the world as we know it would be completely different reagan was lucky enough to be in office at the end of the cold war he made the rich get richer and the poor get poorer but republicans will always love him for some reason even though eisonhower was a top ten president in his own right and a Conservative republican way better then reagan

Answer 2

Ike was good in the sense that he was the only president that refused to fund israel! JFK was great when it came to standing up to the cia! LBJ was good with lifting dogs by their ears and promoting the war on poverty! Nixon, well we all know what happen to him,but he was good with foreign policy! Ford had to have been part of the Warren Commission cover-up and he did pardon Nixon, so he gets no points, sorry! Jimmy Carter was the most moral president we have ever had! Reagan was senile before his time! GHB was just a premonition of what was yet to come! Bill and Hill made a good combination, too bad he had too many in-digressions! Gwb the absolute worst president , if you wanted him to be any worse by design you would have to outdo yourself to reach that point!

Answer 3

Reagan

Answer 4

by modern era, i am assuming you mean post WW2. the answer is richard nixon. forget the watergate scandal, that was more hype than anything, and ultimately, so what? it was a political scrap between republican and democrat operatives.

nixon was extremely intelligent, and extremely forward thinking. as ike's VP, he greatly expanded the role of the vice presidency. and he was an advocate of civil rights within the republican party, owing to his egalitarian quaker roots and upbringing.

yes he was a republican, but he was very liberal minded, his voting record as a senator was more liberal than kennedy's, especially on social issues and foreign policy.

nixon opened up the door to china, planting the seeds of a free market economy, and putting the soviets on the defensive in the cold war, once and for all. reagan reaped the benefits of nixon's hard work 15 years later when the soviet bloc collapsed. china was the key part of the equation. had they allied firmly with the soviets, the world today would be very different. they did not, however, recognizing the economic hegemony of the U.S. and choosing to become the U.S.' major trading partner. nixon was the force behind this change.

he also created the EPA and approved clean air and water act of 1970, a revolutionary piece of pro-environment legislation that vastly improved the way manufacturing businesses were run, and helped push the modern "green" trends in the U.S. its effects are still felt today in many positive ways.

nixon was never a servant of big business or special interests, unlike his more recent counterparts. though some of his cabinet members were. his cabinet was a key weak point in nixon's administration, as was his party fixation. nixon was a fiercely loyal republican, too much so, and it proved to be his downfall.

but nixon the man was, at his core, very decent and honorable. he always spoke highly of the kennedy clan after his retirement, when no one else seemed to want to, and in light of his fraud-induced defeat to kennedy in 1960, which he could have challenged but in the interests of the nation chose not to. the public expected he would harbor some resentment, but he never did.

he was a sound decision maker and visionary who recognized the importance of harnessing the global market, decades before anyone else seemed to get it.

kudos to richard nixon, the best california-born politician ever.

Answer 5

I think Ronald Reagan was the best president of the modern era. He was a strong politician that gave this country a backbone. He officially ended the cold war and brought us into modern day society.

We will never know about Kennedy. He died way before his time.

Answer 6

I heard about a poll on the news a few days ago, sorry I can't cite the source, other than it was on a news radio station. It showed that Reagan was voted overwhelmingly the best President of the last 10 and Carter was overwhelmingly the worst.

Answer 7

Kennedy got the US heavily into Nam by ordering the assassination of the President of South Vietnam.

Answer 8

William Jefferson Clinton

Answer 9

Reaganomics hurt everyone. Kennedy could have been because he believed in equality, but his personal life was not healthy for the country. Carter was definitely the best president; the only true Christian in office.

Answer 10

reagan hands down..
carter has changed his mind about W being the worst after jimmy looked back at his own failures as prez..
kennedy was a close 2nd...