Who do you think was the best president from 1900-1988?

Answer 1

Without a doubt, Ronald Reagan, or as Rush Limbaugh calls him, "Ronaldus Magnus". He completely destroyed the Soviet Union without firing a shot. Critics say that he shouldn't have even addressed the Star Wars program for missile defense b/c they say it isn't possible, well these are the same idiots who continue to say that to this day even though the Chinese are shooting down satellites in space AND that man didnt land on the moon!!! He was the number one president b/c he understood that communism can't survive without capitalism, and he sent Bill Casey to Saudi Arabia to open up their oil markets to the west, to steal cash from the Soviet oil pipeline (the Soviets had to sell their oil on the capitalist market to survive). Indeed, the SU was pathetic and Reagan knew it. I think we should do like the Greek philosopher (cant remember his name) said, that politics should only be entered into by the types of people like Reagan who actually know what theyre talking about, and it should be a lifetime assignment like in Brave New World. Anyway, Reagan is also a prophet b/c he knew what would happen if we let terrorists get away with terrorism and he punished extemists wherever he could find them. He was the best president also b/c unlike Jimmy Carter he inspired confidence. Reagan understood the economy. I despise this perception in the media that the 80's were an era of greed. In order to be greedy, you must take what doenst belong to you. In the 80's no more than usual in any decade were being greedy! It certainly has nothing to reflect on Reagan. Indeed, he should be put on mt rushmore!!!

Answer 2

Lots of folks are gonna say Roosevelt, but they'll pick the wrong one! Teddy Roosevelt was the best president from 1900-`1988 because he brought us both peace and prosperity at the same time! He was also the "Trust-Buster", who crushed the Trusts (monopolies) and created true competition that benefited all citizens. No one else has ever done all that. Even Ronald Reagan only managed two out of the three. Close, but no cigar Ronnie boy! Teddy is the man!

Answer 3

1, tie) Theodore Roosevelt/Ronald Reagan.

2) Although I hate to admit it, FDR.

Theodore Roosevelt made the United States a world power due to his modernization of the Navy. Domestically he broke up much of the machine politics, broke many monopolies creating business competition, created the FDA, and championed conservation. Had the Repubilcans nominated him in 1912 he would have handily defeated Woodrow Wilson and World War I might have turned out much differently (at the very least, his since of fairness would not have allowed the harsh peace on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles which was the ultimate cause of World War II). Without Theodore to model his life after, FDR might not have been as ambitious and never been President (especially after polio).

Reagan for winning the Cold War by building up our stagnating military, for improving the economy, and over all, giving Americans a sense of pride again after Vietnam, Nixon, and the Carter Years.

FDR...HE DID NOT END THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WORLD WAR II DID!!! He also nearly made some great blunders in the war and had it not been for Churchill, we would have invaded France too early and been pushed back into the English Channel by the Germans. Still, FDR did give people hope during the Depression, had the foresite to install the first peacetime draft in 1940 which gave the United States a body of men at least trained by the Army, and for starting the Manhattan Project after reading Einstein's letter and grasping the consequences (can you see W in the same situation??? I doubt it) of a German atomic bomb.

Worst Presidents in Order:

LBJ - Escalating Vietman while saying we would pull out. The Great Society which has many socialistic tendiencies. Failure in both foreign and domestic policies.

Carter - Lets our military staginate, lets the economy staginate, and the United States loses much respect in the world.

Nixon - At least he was a success in foreign policy, opening the door with China and basically pulling out of Vietnam. Still, had to resign because of his paranoia during the 1972 election during watergate.

Hoover - Did not understand the plight of the American people during the Great Depression.

Answer 4

1. Woodrow Wilson
2. Dwight Eisenhower
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Franklin Roosevelt
5. John F. Kennedy
6. Harry Truman
7. Lyndon B. Johnson
8. Ronald Regan
9. Richard Nixon
10. Jimmy Carter
11. Gerald R. Ford
12. William Howard Taft
13. Warren G. Harding
14. Calvin Coolidge

Ranked from best to worst during that era

Answer 5

I am surprised no one has stated Kennedy? I also prefer FDR, Truman, and...

Theodore Roosevelt:

During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan. He was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war.

Boss Tom Platt, needing a hero to draw attention away from scandals in New York State, accepted Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for Governor in 1898. Roosevelt won and served with distinction.

As President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.

Roosevelt emerged spectacularly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the Northwest. Other antitrust suits under the Sherman Act followed.

Roosevelt steered the United States more actively into world politics. He liked to quote a favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "

Aware of the strategic need for a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific, Roosevelt ensured the construction of the Panama Canal. His corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented the establishment of foreign bases in the Caribbean and arrogated the sole right of intervention in Latin America to the United States.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world.

Some of Theodore Roosevelt's most effective achievements were in conservation. He added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects.

He crusaded endlessly on matters big and small, exciting audiences with his high-pitched voice, jutting jaw, and pounding fist. "The life of strenuous endeavor" was a must for those around him, as he romped with his five younger children and led ambassadors on hikes through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.

Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari, then jumped back into politics. In 1912 he ran for President on a Progressive ticket. To reporters he once remarked that he felt as fit as a bull moose, the name of his new party.

While campaigning in Milwaukee, he was shot in the chest by a fanatic. Roosevelt soon recovered, but his words at that time would have been applicable at the time of his death in 1919: "No man has had a happier life than I have led; a happier life in every way."

Answer 6

1 FDR 2 Truman 3 Ronnie Regan

Answer 7

Same here. FDR did a lot of dumb things(try to stack the Supreme Court, let Stalin practically get away with murder). But you would be hard pressed to find a President to have turned around an economy as shattered as the one during the Great Depression, call for a fight against an enemy that no one wanted to fight and led a country through some brutal warfare imaginable when it was on the ropes.

Answer 8

I pick Herbert Hoover. He has been incorrectly blamed for the Depression and in actuality developed a number of the programs enacted under Franklin Roosevelt. He was probably the ost intelligent of the presidents through those years. He had a wide background with many accomplishments some of which are described in the following short bio:
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian.
Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer.
He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China, where he worked for a private corporation as China's leading engineer. In June 1900 the Boxer Rebellion caught the Hoovers in Tientsin. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy fire. While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades, and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children.
One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, Germany declared war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States. Next Hoover turned to a far more difficult task, to feed Belgium, which had been overrun by the German army.
After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed overseas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies fed.
After the Armistice, Hoover, a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia in 1921. When a critic inquired if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, Hoover retorted, "Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!"
After capably serving as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican Presidential nominee in 1928. He said then: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." His election seemed to ensure prosperity. Yet within months the stock market crashed, and the Nation spiraled downward into depression.
After the crash Hoover announced that while he would keep the Federal budget balanced, he would cut taxes and expand public works spending.
In 1931 repercussions from Europe deepened the crisis, even though the President presented to Congress a program asking for creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid business, additional help for farmers facing mortgage foreclosures, banking reform, a loan to states for feeding the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic governmental economy.
At the same time he reiterated his view that while people must not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility.
His opponents in Congress, who he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, unfairly painted him as a callous and cruel President. Hoover became the scapegoat for the depression and was badly defeated in 1932. In the 1930's he became a powerful critic of the New Deal, warning against tendencies toward statism.
In 1947 President Truman appointed Hoover to a commission, which elected him chairman, to reorganize the Executive Departments. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President Eisenhower in 1953. Many economies resulted from both commissions' recommendations. Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, one of which he was working on when he died at 90 in New York City on October 20, 1964.

Answer 9

Well I do hate to say it because he had many flaws, but I guess we all do. I would say Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Answer 10

FDR