Glimmer Of Hope For “Old Buck”?

On this President’s Day, it is a good time to look back at our past presidents and see how they stack up against one another.

The newly released 2017 Presidential Historians Survey finds Abe Lincoln once again leading the pack, with James Buchanan, the president preceding Lincoln, scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It is worth noting George W. Bush ranks a dismal 33 while Barack Obama comes in a healthy 12.

Here is the full list:
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. Harry S. Truman
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. John F. Kennedy
9. Ronald Reagan
10. Lyndon Baines Johnson
11. Woodrow Wilson
12. Barack Obama
13. James Monroe
14. James K. Polk
15. Bill Clinton
16. William McKinley Jr.
17. James Madison
18. Andrew Jackson
19. John Adams
20. George H. W. Bush
21. John Quincy Adams
22. Ulysses S. Grant
23. Grover Cleveland
24. William H. Taft
25. Gerald R. Ford Jr.
26. Jimmy Carter
27. Calvin Coolidge
28. Richard M. Nixon
29. James A. Garfield
30. Benjamin Harrison
31. Zachary Taylor
32. Rutherford B. Hayes
33. George W. Bush
34. Martin Van Buren
35. Chester Arthur
36. Herbert Hoover
37. Millard Fillmore
38. William Henry Harrison
39. John Tyler
40. Warren G. Harding
41. Franklin Pierce
42. Andrew Johnson
43. James Buchanan

With Donald Trump getting off to one of the worst starts in presidential history, there is hope “Old Buck” Buchanan, also known as the “Bachelor President” and “Ten-Cent Jimmy,” may finally escape the cellar.

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