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How Did The Presidents rank?

Timed for Presidents Day 2009, C-SPAN today releases the results of its second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, in which a cross-section of 65 presidential historians ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership.

  • Click the links on the right to see the full survey with overall rankings & total scores for each President.
  • Click here to read the C-SPAN News Release about the survey results.
  • Survey in the News.
  • Watch slide show briefing of survey results.
  • Click here to view the list of historians and presidential experts who participated.
  • Click here to watch the Washington Journal segment.
  • Click here to visit C-SPAN's 2000 Survey of Presidential Leadership.
Top Ten Presidents, 2009 v. 2000

Survey Links

  • Index
  • Total Scores/Overall Ranking
  • Survey Participants
INDIVIDUAL LEADERSHIP
                     CHARACTERISTICS
  • Public Persuasion
  • Crisis Leadership
  • Economic Management
  • Moral Authority
  • International Relations
  • Administrative Skills
  • Relations with Congress
  • Vision/Setting An Agenda
  • Pursued Equal Justice For All
  • Performance Within Context of Times
 
   
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