Biography americas 10 most hated presidents

ByJack Hawkins

In 2021, C-SPAN published its latest presidential historians survey, which asked a panel of experts to rank the previous 45 U.S.

presidents in the following categories: public persuasion; crisis leadership; economic management; moral authority; international relations; administrative skills; relations with Congress; "vision and setting an agenda," "pursued equal justice for all," and "performance within context of times." Then, these 10 "individual leadership characteristics" were combined to calculate an overall score for each president — the higher the score, the better the president.

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The results may come as a surprise.

Obviously, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are heavyweights in this arena. But what about JFK and Ronald Reagan? Where does a 21st-century president, such as Donald Trump, rank compared to old Civil War figures such as Andrew Johnson a