Who has been the best president in the US since 1960 till now?
Theodore Roosevelt.He made the office of the President more active in the affairs of state. His view of the Presidency was basically, what the President does is legal, unless the law or the Constitution says otherwise. Many of his predecessors ask “where in the Constitution authorizes me to do this? What law justifies it? His activist view on the Presidency foreshadowed future Presidents, most notably FDR (who inspired other future Presidents).His personal prestige elevated the level of the Presidency as equal to the Sovereigns of Europe…prior to Roosevelt, the President looked more like an Executive Clerk carrying out the wishes of the Congress.He was able to maintain an independent streak, against the Conservatives who dominated the Republican Party.He had the Great White Fleet travel around the World showing the might of the U.S.He often lobbied the people directly to get what he wanted..including reelection.His activist Presidency was reenforced by the energy he projected. (William Howard Taft was only 1 year older than TR; Wilson was only 2 years older than TR. Although both of them lived longer, neither one appeared as more energetic than Roosevelt. To be fair, TR was only 42 when he became President and left office at 50. That would make Taft 51 when he became President and 55 when leaving office. And Wilson would be 56 when entering the Presidency and 64 leaving office.)He was the first accidental President elected to a full four-year term.He was able to hand-pick his successor to his party and have his personal choice elected..He created the first White House Press Office.His mediation of the Russo-Japanese War was a rolemodel for personal diplomacy on subsequent Presidents.He's got a spot on Mount Rushmore. The only 20th century President there…
The Best President Ever?
It's between Lincoln and FDR because they led the country through its greatest crises and never backed down. A great president is measured through how he leads in tough times because tough times don't last, tough people do. Being a knowledgeable, strong commander in chief, and knowing how to manage spending by the government are also included. There are many debates about who is the greatest and most times your just choosing the lesser of two evils. These two are the obvious choices when you look at history. I would love to put JFK in here but the fact is he was taken from the people before he could fulfill his dream. You could argue the failures of Lincoln and Roosevelt as well but no one goes through this lifetime w/o failing. For the great ones, failure is why they succeed.
Who was the best president in US history?
There have been several polls taken among historians who study this kind of stuff, and almost all have put Lincoln, Washington, and FDR at the top of the list. Almost universally Lincoln is recognized as the best. Not only did he hold the Union together during, by far, it's most turbulent period, he influenced people who hated him, didn't want to fight, didn't mind slavery, and wanted to see the Union dissolve. Lincoln manged Washington DC, the War, and Politics with a skill unmatched in history. Plus he was our most eloquent speaker. Washington and the Founding Fathers may have given a head and body to our nation, but Lincoln give it It's soul. There is far more discussion regarding the worst. Most people put Hoover down due to his complete ineptitude at handling the Depression. Nixon is a mixed bag, brilliant at politics and diplomacy, but insanely miserable judgment. Harrison was president for about 30 days. His one distinction is having the longest, most boring inaugural speech in history. Tyler was a prick. Jackson did some great things but legalized the murder of Native Americans. Harding was just dumber than dirt and everyone around him manipulated him for their own gain. The four of five presidents before Lincoln, for doing everything they could to ensure that, when slavery did end, its death would be bloody, horrific, and the absolute worst outcome possible. Buchanan has to top that list. It's too early to say about modern presidents - in all likelihood, Reagan will be ranked high, GHW Bush medium-high, Clinton medium-low (see Nixon and the judgment thing) and GW Bush, low.
Who were the 5 best U.S. presidents ever?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat) - guided the United States through the Great Depression via Keynesian stimulus (though he should’ve gone further), was inspirational, had the correct instincts when it came to foreign policy, and was committed to pursuing the war to its end.Abraham Lincoln (Republican) - would do anything to preserve the United States as a nation-state, eventually committed to eradicating slavery, imposed a military occupation on the South to emancipate Blacks which ended too early, inspirational, had good political instincts.Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) - extremely courageous, destroyed the Democratic Party’s base in the South in order to eradicate the Jim Crow regime, the Great Society was a laudable effort to attack extreme cyclical poverty (the US needs a similar initiative now), he attempted to curtail the nuclear arms race and liked to party (Vietnam is an enormous black mark, but in fairness Johnson knew that he had made a mistake shortly afterwards, and if it weren’t for Nixon’s meddling he could’ve ended the war before leaving office).Barack Obama (Democrat) - cut unemployment down to historic lows, guided the US through the Great Recession, expanded health insurance (through an imperfect regime, blame Congress) to over 20 million Americans, dramatically extended civil liberties to LGBTQ Americans, pursued sensible foreign policies with Iran and Cuba, took a tougher line on Israeli settlements, greenest president ever, and correctly pivoted towards Asia (points deducted for Libya, being blindsided by the Syrian Civil War and ISIS, not pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan sooner or closing Guantanamo).Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) - who doesn’t like Teddy Roosevelt? Fun, gregarious, interesting, devil may care, early proponent of government being a force for good in people’s lives, father of food safety inspections and environmental conservation, broke up monopolies (or trusts as he called them), said bully! a lot when he was excited. Cool.What was the GOP thinking when they went for Taft???As you can tell if I were American and had lived in the past, I would’ve been a Republican from Lincoln to T Roosevelt and a Democrat post FDR.
Who was the best overall president of U.S.A?
With the risk of sounding reactionary, I would nominate the first president of the United States, George Washington.At the height of his popularity, he was offered almost unlimited power, but he turned it down, setting an example for future presidents and allowing for a system with checks and balances. The United States could have become a dictatorship had a more ambitious man been in his position.Washington set a precedent for term limits (two 4-year terms), which all presidents followed as a respect for the office until Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to break tradition. After that, the two-term limit was codified into law.Washington became the symbol of the new, artificial country and the capital was named after him - creating an identity which united very diverse people living very different lifestyles on the continent. Symbols and the idea of a common history are important to national cohesiveness.George Washington’s foreign policy, staying out of entangling alliances and European feuds, helped keep the new country alive. Who knows if the United would have survived very long, had he been pulled into a military adventure against the organized armies of the time?Despite all the talk of liberty, many of the founding fathers of the United States owned slaves, as was common at the time. George Washington was no different. Many felt guilty, or acknowledged their hypocrisy in private, but few took action to undo the wrong. However, George Washington was one of the few to live up to the rhetoric by freeing his slaves upon his death.Many later presidents were replaceable, but the question I asked myself before reaching my conclusion was as follows:Would the United States have been so successful had a different man been in the same position at that time? And the answer was NO.
Who is the best president America never had?
Because of my answer, I'll have to insist I'm not cheating: Richard M. Nixon, 1960. As Henry Kissinger pointed out, "Can you imagine what this man would have been if someone had loved him?" Nixon's narrow defeat by John Kennedy in the 1960 Presidential Election seemed a turning point in Nixon's personality. While Nixon had always had his notions about manliness, fortitude, and strength that transcended his personality into his politics, it is after his defeat that we see his paranoia start to kick-in. This is not helped by the notion that Mayor Daley had rigged the vote in Chicago for a Kennedy win in Illinois (although Nixon never protested due to Republican vote-rigging in out-state Illinois). One can see the impetus for "enemies lists" and hardball politics when he comes back in 1968, activities that obviously set the stage for Watergate. I contend that had Nixon won in 1960, we likely do not get the realignment of Dixiecrats into the GOP on nearly the same timeframe. The same, moderate Nixon that oversaw the creation of the Environmental Protection Act and even-handed budgeting and taxation would have carried the nation forward at home on footing not altogether different from Kennedy. But in foreign policy, I am not sure Nixon would have been drawn into either Cuba or Vietnam the way that Kennedy had. I find the possibilities surrounding Nixon in relations with Russia and China the most intriguing. While the context in which Nixon visited China would have been entirely different, the concept of playing the communist superpowers against one another surely came before then.Moreover, I doubt that Nixon would have manifested his deep mistrust of others had his 1960 campaign succeeded. I think he would have been a very different president than the one we got in '68.So that is my answer, for better and for worse: the Richard Nixon of 1960 is the best president America never had.