Who do you consider as the Greatest President in American History?

Question

I consider George W. Bush as the Greatest President in American History.

Answer 1

No Question in my mind.
Ronald Reagan.
He took the dump of an economy Carter left him and made it boom.
He made the Iron Curtain fall.
He ended the Cold War.. a war 40 years in the making.
He reinstilled Conservatism into this country, and showed that it works.
These are just a few of the things of the long list of very impressive things this man has done that EASILY makes him the BEST president EVER.
And to be honest, I DONT think ANYONE will ever do close to as good of a job as he did.

God bless you, Ronald Reagan.

Answer 2

I have given your question a lot of thought and I cant pick one,as I think that almost all of our presidents have thought that they were doing what was best for our country, even when it didn't turn out to be the best thing. There was only one that I truly think, was only out for him self and his wife is just like him to them it is a power trip and that is very sad because that is what Hitler was(power hungry)
I do agree that George W. Bush has been a good President and I think that 50 years from now history will look at him in a favorable way.
I hope that the American people don't vote Hillary Clinton as our next President,how soon many of us forget. I haven't heard anyone mention any of the stuff the Clinton administration did before they handed the rains over to Bush
forgive my language but I would personally rather have a sh*t kicken Texan than a power hungry deviant any day.

Answer 3

George W. Bush did send our troops to Iraq... Which I still think today was a mistake. However the best president ever has to be JFK or Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although I do respect Bush in some ways.

Answer 4

Ronald Reagan

Answer 5

Impossible to answer, really,

We have had several presidents who were truly great ( Washington, Lincoln, arguably FDR ) and several who were almost (Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and name your favorite - Truman in my fathers lifetime, but a lot of people would take issue with that).

There are probably several others who had the seeds of greatness, but didn't face the crises that cause ordinary men to rise to that rare level of extraordinary excellence/achievement.

And for every one of the real dogs (Bush x2, Harding, Polk, Van Beuren) there are a pack of adequate executives, some of whom did good things or even notable things, but were either balanced by negatives or shot down by the circumstances that were handed to them (Johnson is perhaps the classic example).

If I had to pick a best, it would have to be Lincoln, who preserved the Union against almost impossible odds, in the process creating the conditions that would allow the nation to heal and grow after a bitter, horribly destructive Civil War. The effort killed him, figuratively and finally literally, but the Union survives because of him. Finally, I like him because he was as self-made a man and President as we have ever had, an excellent writer, and a very funny guy. In addition, there is no way that this ungainly man, born in poverty, self-educated, a homely country lawyer with a dreadful wife and a sqeaky speaking voice, could ever get elected in the age of TV and computers. This endears him to me all the more.

Answer 6

Stuck between Ronald Reagon and Teddy Roosevelt. With Washington close behind.

Answer 7

Obviously you don't know much about history. To put George W. Bush above Reagan is bad enough but above Washington, Both Roosevelts, or Lincoln shows your prure ignorance of the subject. I suspect that Bush had just been appointed when you turned 6 or 7 years old and so Bush is really the only President you know anything about.

Answer 8

i could think of Al Gore too. yet any large vice-presidents before 1970 ro 1960 are unlikely to get plenty interest from this answer. i don't be attentive to sufficient approximately historic previous and that i'm constructive no longer too many people ought to assert that throughout 1910 a definite vice-president did good stuff for example.

Answer 9

Well, the historians of the world disagree with you. In a recent poll, he was rated dead last among all American presidents. Do you really think he is better than Washington or Lincoln? Perhaps you need to study history a bit more.

Answer 10

In history I would say Lincoln. in my life time it would be Ronald Reagan hands down the greatest