Friday, February 08, 2008

Worst President in History? Bush? Historian weighs in.


One more historian weighs in. Read the whole article. Here is just one quote from one of many Ivy League historians.

Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University, wrote that great presidents, "Presented with arduous, at times seemingly impossible circumstances, they rallied the nation, governed brilliantly and left the republic more secure than when they entered office."
By contrast, "Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties -- James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Herbert Hoover and now Bush -- have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off."

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