What are you most thinking most about on President’s Day?
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” (Aldous Huxley)
As I celebrate another President’s Day on February 19 this year, I’m pursuing a vital task to find reputable studies that reveal objectively how all of our Presidents rank competitively against each other throughout history in doing their job. Let’s imagine then looking at this holiday effort in sports “Draft Day” fashion whereby a selection of one President would be made round by round to compose an All Star Presidential team. In particular, I’d be curious to know how our current leading candidates for President in 2024 (Biden and Trump) stand in this analytic setting.
So I’m excited to share the “Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey” whereby experts have “crunched” key available data to complete this important ranking task. I also invite you to scan through the attached photos and decide for yourself who are our most and least deserving U.S. Presidents.
Source:
http://www.brandonrottinghaus.com
Click to access presidential_greatness_white_paper_2024.pdf
Snippets of a Traveling Mind 
And the LOOSER IS! Jail time is too easy for him!
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How about the Guillotine then?
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Great blogpost! Public opinion certainly changes over time doesn’t it? Years ago when I first began teaching gifted students they had county competitions for gifted students in Broward county. I can’t recall the exact name of the program but they sent out a copy of information cards on each President including their accomplishments and strengths as well as their quirks and bad decisions. Also included was trivia about the fattest president, the ones with the most popular First Ladies, and a host of other fun stuff on them all. Students would make info cards and memorize facts and then compete with other school teams. It was great fun. It lasted a few years but was then was dropped when the school system didn’t have enough $ to fund buses for the teams. (That’s back when gifted teachers taught ALL grade levels as a pull out program). Anyhow, we did what you did and created our own lists ranking the Presidents. So your chart reminded of the fun my students and I used to have. When they broke up gifted by grade I used that activity as a 5th grade teacher because we taught American history and in 4th grade during the month of February. I have to think back really hard to recall the Presidents in the middle of the list but obviously, Lincoln, Kennedy and FDR were always top favorites plus the Kids always remembered Taft because he was the fattest. lol (Even if the bathtub story about him is fable, they got a good laugh hearing the rumor. lol I really enjoyed your list! Thanks !
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I would have loved to have been a student in your gifted class during those Presidential learning sessions. That’s a good way teach the subject .
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This is such a wonderful blog post, and I very much enjoyed reading it. I think it’s always fun to see where would other recent presidents, such as Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush rank on such a list. I am not surprised to see who is at nr. 45! His highest rankings were in luck, public persuasion and willingness to take risks — but he ranks low due to his weakening of the presidential office itself. Thanks for sharing, and have a wonderful day. I hope all is well in your part of the world. Greetings from Ireland. Aiva :) xx
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I don’t see Trump’s strengths happening with any thing dealing with human morals and intellect. . Apparently these experts don’t as well.
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Very interesting. Being more of a policy wonk than an ideologue, I’m not especially surprised by the first six. But from there on, I have to question how much temporal proximity to current ideologies played a roll in survey responses, both up and down.
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Go through the methodology on how this list as compiled and you might think otherwise.
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I did, actually. Many specific queries were apparently left mostly without responses. There were also questions admittedly intended to introduce some subjectivity, such as most over or under rated. And what criteria are “best”? FDR may have been an effective leader in many regards; however, his flexing of the limits of Constitutionality verging on an Executive seizure-of-power were enough to result in the XXII Amendment (something both Truman and Reagan later railed against). The US has always had to deal with would-be Emperors and dictators. Should that disqualify an effective president, especially if considering it’s what the country chose at the time? I suppose there’s no way to double-blind such a survey, as it’s difficult to rate “leadership” qualities objectively. Fun to consider, nevertheless.
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At least you and I are living in the world of facts on this issue when so many do not.
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