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To: rich4eagle who wrote (218957)	1/16/2002 12:30:58 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

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To: rich4eagle who wrote (218957)	1/16/2002 6:37:51 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

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To: rich4eagle who wrote (218957)	1/16/2002 9:08:21 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Historians Rank Presidential Leadership In New C-SPAN Survey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 21, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ten Leadership Qualities Assessed Across US History Historians have given Abraham Lincoln, FDR, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman the top five honors for presidential leadership in a survey of historians conducted by C-SPAN in December and January. Fifty-eight historians from across the political spectrum who contributed to C-SPAN's year long series, American Presidents: Life Portraits participated in C-SPAN's survey. They rated the 41 men who have served in the White House on ten different qualities of presidential leadership. Results of this survey, overall rankings and each president's scores in individual categories, are being released by C-SPAN to coincide with the February 21 observance of President's Day. President Clinton rated 21st overall and in the center in most categories: 20th in Crisis Leadership; 21st in International Relations; 21st in Administrative Skills; 22nd in Vision/Agenda Setting; and 21st in Performance in the Context of the times. His high scores were in Pursuing Equal Justice (5th), Economic Management (5th) and Public Persuasion (11th); his low scores were in Relations with Congress (36th) and Moral Authority (41st). Rated worst overall as leaders by participating historians were William Henry Harrison (37), Warren G. Harding (38), Franklin Pierce (39), Andrew Johnson (40) and James Buchanan (41). This is C-SPAN's first effort at surveying presidential leadership. "We spent all of 1999 learning about these men through our American Presidents series. A formal survey of historians seemed like a natural conclusion to that effort," said C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb. "It also seemed like a useful project for an election year, when Americans are making the same kind of judgements about who they want to inherit the White House." The cable public affairs network was guided in the survey effort by a team of four historians and academics: Dr. Douglas Brinkley, Director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans; Dr. Edna Greene Medford, Associate Professor of History, Howard University; Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Gerald R. Ford Museum and Library; and Dr. John Splaine, Education professor, University of Maryland. The four survey advisors devised a survey which asked participants to use a one ("not effective") to ten ("very effective") scale to rate each president on ten qualities of presidential leadership: "Public Persuasion," "Crisis Leadership," "Economic Management," "Moral Authority," "International Relations," "Administrative Skills," "Relations with Congress," "Vision/Agenda Setting," and "Pursuit of Equal Justice for All". And, to reflect the changing role of the presidency over the course of US history, the advisory team chose as the tenth category, "Performance Within the Context of His Times." The survey was sent by mail in December to 87 historians and other professional observers of the presidency whose work contributed to C-SPAN's 41 week biography series, American Presidents. Fifty-eight agreed to participate. Survey responses were tabulated by averaging all the responses in any given category for each president. Each of the ten categories were given equal weighting in the total scores. Overseeing the tabulation were Robert Kennedy, C-SPAN CFO and Dr. Robert Browning, a political scientist who serves as director of the C-SPAN archives. Interested C-SPAN viewers were also given the chance to participate in a separate tabulation. The complete survey was available online for a ten-day period at the end of December. The online program was designed for one-time participation from a computer address; 1145 people took part in the survey which its designers estimate took at least 45 minutes to complete. Full results of the public version of the presidential leadership survey are available on C-SPAN's web site at www.c-span.org. C-SPAN, which marks its 21st anniversary in March, offers commercial-free round-the-clock coverage of public affairs via cable and satellite and on the Internet. C-SPAN was created in l979 by the cable television industry as a public service to the nation. This year, C-SPAN moves from its year long focus on presidential history to offer extensive coverage of its fifth presidential election, including gavel-to-gavel telecasts of the Republican, Democratic, Reform and Libertarian Party conventions. americanpresidents.org

To: rich4eagle who wrote (218957)	1/16/2002 9:11:14 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769670

The Presidents: History's Judgment (TIME, April 13) -- When TIME asked nine presidential historians to rank, from best to worst, the 17 American Presidents of the 20th century, we left some questions to their discretion: What do we expect from our leaders? Are effective Presidents also the most significant ones? What constitutes greatness? Here is our panel's consensus: 1 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Term: 1933-45 Chief accomplishments: Rescued country from Depression; led U.S. through its greatest foreign war Biggest blunder: Tried to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937 Historians' comments: "Changed the landscape of American life"; "In a class by himself"; "Indisputably the century's greatest" 2 THEODORE ROOSEVELT Term: 1901-09 Chief accomplishments: Busted trusts; expanded public lands; increased U.S. influence abroad Biggest blunder: Somewhat unlawful meddling in Latin America Historians' comments: "The great prophet of affirmative government"; "The best example of an 'activist' President. Bully!" 3 WOODROW WILSON Term: 1913-21 Chief accomplishments: Created Federal Reserve System; led country through World War I and devised League of Nations Biggest blunder: Failed to secure domestic support for League Historians' comment: "A great visionary who presided over major domestic advances" 4 HARRY S TRUMAN Term: 1945-53 Chief accomplishments: Launched Marshall Plan, NATO; desegregated armed services Biggest blunder: Overreached in the Korean War Historians' comments: "Architect of the winning strategy in the cold war"; "A decent human being with homespun virtues" 5 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Term: 1953-61 Chief accomplishment: Quietly presided over period of peace and unprecedented prosperity Biggest blunder: Reluctance to tackle civil rights issues Historians' comments: "Articulated clearly the values shared by Americans"; "No hint of scandal either. The good old days" 6 RONALD REAGAN Term: 1981-89 Chief accomplishments: Confronted Soviet threat; gutted Great Society programs Biggest blunders: Iran-contra; national debt; "We begin bombing in five minutes..." Historians' comments: "Brought about sea change"; "Maybe ended the cold war"; "Jury still out" 7 LYNDON B. JOHNSON Term: 1963-69 Chief accomplishments: Passed Medicare, Medicaid, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act Biggest blunder: Vietnam War Historians' comments: "America would have found a way to give blacks the vote without him, but don't ask me how"; "Greatest domestic legislator in history" 8 JOHN F. KENNEDY Term: 1961-63 Chief accomplishments: Inspired nation and created Peace Corps; defused Cuban missile crisis Biggest blunders: Bay of Pigs; increased involvement in Vietnam Historians' comments: "Might be first-tier if he had lived longer"; "Averted a nuclear war"; "Foreign policies were disastrous" 9 GEORGE BUSH Term: 1989-93 Chief accomplishment: Assembled international coalition in Gulf War Biggest blunders: Broke "no new taxes" pledge; made few domestic initiatives amid recession Historians' comments: "A skilled and decent administrator"; "Lacked the 'vision thing'" 10 BILL CLINTON* Term: 1993- Chief accomplishments: Signed balanced-budget deal; ended federal welfare guarantee Biggest blunders: Failed to pass health-care plan; Administration plagued by scandal Historians' comments: "Jury out here too--maybe literally!" *Only seven opinions given 11 WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Term: 1909-13 Chief accomplishment: Signed many antitrust laws, including corporation tax Biggest blunder: Ineffectual "dollar diplomacy" interventions in China and Latin America Historians' comment: "Achieved nothing good with excellent situation left him by T.R." TIE 12 GERALD FORD Term: 1974-77 Chief accomplishment: Ended "long national nightmare" of Watergate; got U.S. out of Vietnam Biggest blunders: Mishandled Nixon pardon; resisted easing New York City financial woes Historians' comments: "Returned nation to normality"; "Essentially a do-nothing President" TIE 12 CALVIN COOLIDGE Term: 1923-29 Chief accomplishments: Slashed federal taxes and spending; scaled down German reparations Biggest blunder: Failed to anticipate economic disaster Historians' comments: "Left little historical legacy"; "Could have been greater if faced with challenges" 14 JIMMY CARTER Term: 1977-81 Chief accomplishment: Camp David accord brought temporary Middle East peace Biggest blunder: Botched attempt to rescue 52 American hostages from U.S. embassy in Iran Historians' comments: "Victim of events beyond his control"; "Should have been a preacher" 15 RICHARD NIXON Term: 1969-74 Chief accomplishments: Opened relations with China; pursued detente with Soviet Union Biggest blunder: Watergate--only President in history to resign Historians' comments: "The most difficult President to assess"; "Uniquely a failure among American Presidents" 16 WARREN HARDING Term: 1921-23 Chief accomplishment: Negotiated international armaments treaty in 1922 Biggest blunders: Teapot Dome oil-leasing scandal; other instances of Administration graft Historians' comment: "Whatever personal shortcomings, presided over a period of economic growth" 17 HERBERT HOOVER Term: 1929-33 Chief accomplishment: Introduced programs later copied in the New Deal Biggest blunders: Signed Smoot-Hawley tariff; ineffective in alleviating Great Depression Historians' comments: "Approach to Depression rigid and dogmatic"; "Victim of bad luck" THE JUDGES Stephen E. Ambrose, Alan Brinkley, Robert Dallek, David M. Kennedy, William E. Leuchtenburg, Ernest R. May, Walter A. McDougall, Herbert S. Parmet, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. cnn.com