Yesterday, C-SPAN released the Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. Below are the results based on ten attributes of leadership. [
Click here to compare this list with scores from 2000
]. I'm interested to find out whether readers agree with these rankings, and if not, who would you move and why? 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. George Washington 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt 4. Theodore Roosevelt 5. Harry S. Truman 6. John F. Kennedy 7. Thomas Jefferson 8. Dwight D. Eisenhower 9. Woodrow Wilson 10. Ronald Reagan 11. Lyndon B. Johnson 12. James K. Polk 13. Andrew Jackson 14. James Monroe 15. Bill Clinton 16. William McKinley 17. John Adams 18. George H.W. Bush 19. John Quincy Adams 20. James Madison 21. Grover Cleveland 22. Gerald R. Ford 23. Ulysses S. Grant 24. William Howard Taft 25. Jimmy Carter 26. Calvin Coolidge 27. Richard M. Nixon 28. James A. Garfield 29. Zachary Taylor 30. Benjamin Harrison 31. Martin Van Buren 32. Chester A. Arthur 33. Rutherford B. Hayes 34. Herbert Hoover 35. John Tyler 36. George W. Bush 37. Millard Fillmore 38. Warren G. Harding 39. William Henry Harrison 40. Franklin D. Pierce 41. Andrew Johnson 42. James Buchanan
