Who is the greatest president in the history of the US?

Answer 1

George Washington

Answer 2

There is no perfect President-they all had flaws and made mistakes. The president who did the most to help most Americans is without question:

FDR Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT

Students of Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., holding a poll on the greatest U. S. President, voted 43 for Abraham Lincoln, 44 for George Washington, 202 for Franklin D. Roosevelt.

THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE NEW DEAL

The New Deal started out successfully, by making gains against the Great Depression. Under the Republican presidency of Herbert Hoover, the economy shrank each year. Under Roosevelt, it grew five out of seven years:

Changes in GNP, by President

Year %Change in GNP President
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1930 - 9.4% Hoover
1931 - 8.5 Hoover
1932 -13.4 Hoover
1933 - 2.1 Hoover/Roosevelt
1934 + 7.7 Roosevelt
1935 + 8.1 Roosevelt
1936 +14.1 Roosevelt
1937 + 5.0 Roosevelt
1938 - 4.5 Roosevelt
1939 + 7.9 Roosevelt
World War II saw an explosion of productivity, and the U.S. emerged from the war as the world's only economic superpower. Even though the social values of the 50s were conservative, the economic values of the time were in fact thoroughly liberal. The top income tax rate fluctuated between 88 and 91 percent until 1963, when Kennedy lowered it to 70 percent (still stratospheric by today's standards). The economy was ruled by Keynesian policies at the Federal Reserve, with one especially dramatic success: the complete elimination of the depression from the American experience. Before World War II, the U.S. suffered eight depressions; in the nearly six decades since, it has suffered none.

Even Republican presidents during the New Deal era promoted government activism in the economy. President Eisenhower's interstate highway program connected an entire nation with highways, and allowed middle class families to migrate from the cities to the suburbs. President Nixon declared, "We are all Keynesians now," and created the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

One of the greatest accomplishments of the New Deal era was the vast reduction of poverty. In the so-called "Roaring 20s", fully half of all Americans could not buy the essentials of living. The Great Depression made things worse, but, upon taking office, Roosevelt immediately began redistributing wealth more equally. By the 1950s, the poverty rate had been reduced to 20 percent. Johnson's Great Society reduced this even further, to an all-time low for this century: 11.1 percent in 1973. (8)

Many remember the 50s and 60s as the undisputed age of the American Dream: when a family could afford a house, car and array of modern appliances, all on a single paycheck. Between 1945 and 1973, the Gross Domestic Product grew at a torrid pace: 3.4 percent a year, compared to only 2.5 percent since. Individual worker productivity was a record high 2.8 percent before 1973; but it has averaged only 1 percent since. Economists still don't know what caused the 1973 slowdown, and debate on it rages even today. But the point is that the New Deal saw 40 years of record-breaking growth, and nothing about the corporate special interest system has restored it.

Answer 3

George Washington

Answer 4

George Washington

Answer 5

George Washington.

Answer 6

George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

in a three way tie.

Answer 7

William Henry Harrison

Answer 8

Roosevelt.

Answer 9

Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy