In your opinion, who are the top 5 and worst 5 presidents in US history? Please support your answers.?

Best

Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, TDR, FDR, Eisenhower, Clinton

Worse

Grant, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, GH Bush, GW Bush

1) Washington set up the standards and practices for the office itself.

2) Jefferson created and molded much of the philosophies that made the USA what it is and expanded its territory

3) Reagan beat the USSR without firing a shot and he turned the nation away from its decline and brought it back from its socialist doldrums.

4)Lincoln held the country together and guided it through the toughest time in its history

5) Teddy Roosevelt ended corrupt and monopolistic practices of the Railroads and large corporations. His construction of the Panama Canal and forward thinking ideas helped propel us into a modern nation.

1) Jimmy Carter; He is the founder of Islamofasism, his inept handling of the Iranian Crisis helped to create the first Islamofascist nation, we are dealing with the very real consequences of his actions.

2) Andrew Johnson; His poor political skills allowed his enemies to take control of the Reconstruction. So instead of Lincoln's conciliatory reconstruction there was vengeance, followed by Jim Crow. The South is still struggling with poverty because of this.

3) LBJ, He escalated the Vietnam War yet did not provide strong leadership to support victory, he fought this war AND expanded social welfare programs giving us the indebted Nanny state mindset we still have. No guns and butter.

4) Grant, a great general whose leadership following the war prevented the beginning of a guerilla war in the south. His corrupt government as President created issues of poverty that still linger in the South.

5) Bush Sr. He is an honorable man and things were not to bad during his term but I feel that he was handed the Reagan Revolution and did not capitlaize on it. It would be like being given a Ferrari and not bothering to step on the gas.

Top 5

Lincoln - Civil War, Emmancipation for slaves

Washington - Rev War, creating a country, no one before him

FDR - Great Depression, WWII

Kennedy - 1960s social problems, Cuban Missle Crissis and other Cold War stuff, Space Program

Reagan - Falling of the Berlin Wall, downfall of USSR

Worst 5

Andrew Johnson - did nothing after the Civil War and Lincoln's death at a time when he needed to bring the country together

Hoover - Did nothing to stop Great Depression

Grant - Corruption

W. Bush - Debt, War, economy, world hates us ect.

Harrison - sadly, after giving his 2 hr inagural address in the cold he died after 31 days of a cold.

Worst?

1. Woodrow Wilson - Signed into Law the Federal Reserve Act which unconsitutionally allowed power to create money to a body outside of Congress and our ultimate demise.

2. FDR - allowed Keynes and his thinking to build the idea of huge government spending as a good thing and a stimulus to the economy which has led to our gross debt and obligations.

3. James Buchanan - was a horrible President who did little to nothing to keep the nation from tearing itself apart. Regarded by some historians as the worst President we've had. They don't understand economics so he falls to the previous 2.

4. Nixon - I don't have to go into this, do I?

5. Teddy Roosevelt - He continued our imperialistic happenings into real life.

Monroe Doctrine was also bad.

BEST?!!?!?!?!

Thomas Jefferson. That's all Folks. We had one good one and that's it.

Five best:

Washington - hero of the Revolution, President of the Constitutional Convention, first President of the United States, voluntarily surrendered power, perhaps a first in world history. Without him there is no United States of America.

Lincoln - successfully guided the nation through it's greatest

crisis and helped bring us closer to living up to the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal.

FDR - steered the country out of the Great Depression and to victory in WW2; sadly the confinement of Japanese Americans during that same war leaves an indelible and unerasable stain on his record.

John Adams - despite intense domestic pressure managed to steer the country clear of disastrous war with either England or France at a time when it is not certain the fragile new nation would have survived; peacefully surrendered power to the opposition party after failing to win re-election - perhaps a unique event at the time in world history. However, like FDR there is a terrible blot on his record, the Alien & Sedition Acts.

U.S. Grant - Not a popular choice but severely underrated. Probably the only U.S. President between Lincoln & Truman to attempt to offer any measure of justice to America's black citizens, he used the power of the Federal government to break up the KKK and protect the rights of the freedmen; he also alone among American presidents dealt fairly with the native population.

Five worst:

James Buchanan - his absentee management left the ship of state virtually rudderless as it drifted toward Civil War; his appeasement of southern threats of secession, as illustrated by his attempt to force a pro-slavery government on the people of Kansas, predated Chamberlain in Europe by 80 years.

Franklin Pierce - another pre Civil War nonentity who is remembered for 2 things; drinking heavily and doing nothing.

Andrew Johnson - his bigotry led to the near total abandonment of the freedmen of the south after the assassination of Lincoln; though his impeachment was unwarranted it illustrates what an incapable leader he was.

Andrew Jackson - I'm again at odds with many; though I'll grant his presidency was important that doesn't mean it was good. His destruction of the Bank of the United States planted the seeds for one of the worst economic depressions in U.S. history; the genocidal pogrom against the native population along the Trail of Tears is as bad as any ethnic cleansing in the history of Asia or Europe.

Richard Nixon - escalated the Vietnam War after promising to end it; illegally and secretly expanded that war into neighboring countries; engaged in domestic spying and criminal activities that eventually forced him to resign in disgrace.

Sadly, it is far easier to come up with bad presidents than good. I could easily stretch the worst list to 10, with runner-ups like Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, John Tyler & George W Bush.

Frankly, I couldn't come up with five great Presidents, so I settled for 3 great ones & 2 very good. The only one I feel any guilt for leaving off the top 5 list is Harry Truman.

Johnson right after the Civil War

the ones bet. Wilson (inl. Wilson) and FDR (FDR was good)

Nixon

Truman

Grant was just lackluster

i don't think many people are going to research 10 different presidents

I will just give you the worst.

Only President to give aid to the enemy, Iran.

Ron Reagan: traitor.

I am not writing your report for you.