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TwilightZone

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5. Including FDR with the others is laughable.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 13, 2021, 07:22 PM

Mar 2021

I hope that wasn't the OP's intention.

Grant, on the other hand, is often included in 10-worst lists, though scholars tend to place him from mid-pack to around high 30s.

"The bottom 10 often include James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Ulysses S. Grant, Zachary Taylor and George W. Bush."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

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In the end, deaths per capita will be the yardstick by which nations are compared Shermann Mar 2021 #1

Lumping Grant in with Johnson is sooooo wrong. His drinking aside, he was not at all one of our hlthe2b Mar 2021 #2

Including FDR with the others is laughable. TwilightZone Mar 2021 #5

The major historians have systematically reassessed Grant in recent decades. No, he is NOT hlthe2b Mar 2021 #6

I didn't say I believed otherwise. I provided you with context. TwilightZone Mar 2021 #8

I know about TNR, but this was a good assessment without a paywall. hlthe2b Mar 2021 #9

William Henry Harrison? dpibel Mar 2021 #10

trump is making one ex-POTUS happy LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #3

You can't possibly be lumping FDR in with the others. TwilightZone Mar 2021 #4

Monday Morning QB'ing is silly WarGamer Mar 2021 #7