who is known to be the best united states of america's president?
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Several Presidents presided over particularly troubling times in our history.  Or gained land for us.\n\nReagan ended the Cold War. \n\nFDR - Led us out of the depression and through most of WWII. \n\nTheodore Roosevelt - forged the panama canal.  Without it we'd have to go all the way are South America to get onto the west coast by ship.  \n\nAbe Lincoln - Held the course and would not let our country become divided into two separate nations. \n\nThomas Jefferson - Gave us the Louisiana purchase doubling the size of our country. \n\nJohn Adams - gave us a strong Navy to prevent attacks while our nation was still weak. \n\nGeorge Washington - Forged the path of what a president of the United States should be, by laying the ground work for generations to come. \n\nEach these Presidents made this country what it is today.  Without them our country and the world at large would be a totaly different place. To pick one among them would be unfair as the presidency is not a sprint, by one man, but a race where the torch is passed to each succeeding person.
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My opinion: Abe Lincoln. He helped to keep a divided nation together under some of the most adverse conditions and situations that any president has ever had to contend with- and not only on a national level but on a personal level as well. All that while having to sleep in an awkward angular position in a too-small bed, with a crazy woman by his side and Monica Lewinsky nowhere in sight! A true American hero if you ask me. :)
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I would say FDR. Because of helping to get the US out of the depression and creating Social Security. Even though it's that great it sure helps. And the only President to go three terms.
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An American General who became the first president of the United States of America.\n\nOften called the father of our country.
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Under the original Articles of Confederation, John Hanson was the first President of the United States, an oft-forgotten historical figure.  Under the Constitution of the United States, the presidential system we usually think about, George Washington was the first president, and the only one never to reside in the White House.
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It's between Lincoln and FDR because they led the country through its greatest crises and never backed down. A great president is measured through how he leads in tough times because tough times don't last, tough people do. Being a knowledgeable, strong commander in chief, and knowing how to manage spending by the government are also included. There are many debates about who is the greatest and most times your just choosing the lesser of two evils. These two are the obvious choices when you look at history. I would love to put JFK in here but the fact is he was taken from the people before he could fulfill his dream. You could argue the failures of Lincoln and Roosevelt as well but no one goes through this lifetime w/o failing. For the great ones, failure is why they succeed.
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I believe what makes a great president are a combination of extremely good ethics and a well defined understanding of the human factor involved in such great responsibility. \n\nThe president who uses these best has worked towards balancing National domestic needs and International good will.\n\nAs selected by the Democrats, and leading the list for best President since 1945 is Ronald Reagan. \n\nSurprisingly, the same is true of the Republicans. They considered him over Abraham Lincoln.  See list:\nPoll Results: Which Republican President Was Best?  \nAbraham Lincoln     34.69% \nTeddy Roosevelt     16.33% \nCalvin Coolidge         6.12% \nHerbert Hoover          0 0% \nDwight D. Eisenhower    0 0% \nRichard Nixon     2.04% \nGerald Ford    0 0% \nRonald Reagan     36.73% \nGeorge HW Bush     2.04% \nGeorge W Bush      2.04% \n\nOf course there are those in Princeton who think George Bush is the best...I guess they don't follow the news.\n\nAnyway, as a Canadian, it was President Clinton and President Franklin D. Roosevelt who impressed me the most.
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Some of the best US Presidents where Religious.\n\nJohn Quincy Adams (1825-29):\n"The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world . . . and I say to you, 'Search the Scriptures.'"\n\nAndrew Jackson (1829-37) \n"Sir, that Book is the Rock on which our Republic rests!"\n\nAbraham Lincoln (1861-1865) \n"I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this book upon reason that you can and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man."
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He is one of the best Presidents that the USA has had in the past centuary. Almost as good as Raygon
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Al Gore was pretty good but the first vice president, John Adams who became the 2nd president of the US was a noble and compassionate man who helped form this country.  so i think he was the best.
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FDR -- Franklin Roosevelt.\nHe brought the country out of the worst depression we've ever faced, made us into a world power economically and militarily, stayed out of WWII until Japan attacked, then led us ably through that long and difficult conflict.  No other president has had trials as difficult or results as good.
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George washington.\nThere would be no America without him.
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Bill Clinton is perceived as one of best presidents of all time....except for the far right. Even the far right, while hating him, respects him as a formidable politician.\n\nMost moderates and liberals, while disliking the way he handled the Lewinsky matter, would probably vote him as the best president ever (or at least in the top 5).\n\nHow can Hillary do anything but benefit from her association with one of the best presidents of all time? On top of that she is percived as somewhat of a martyr for all women who have had a unfaithful husband. that in itself, are a LOT of votes!
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One of the 2 best presidents in US history.  In addition, he was an EXTREMELY intelligent, well written and well spoken individual.
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FDR was the best: \nFranklin D. Roosevelt\n\nAssuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."\n\nBorn in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.\n\nFollowing the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.\n\n\nRelated Links\n\nPresident Bush Biography\nVice President Cheney Biography\nLaura Bush Biography\nLynne Cheney Biography\n\n\nIn the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York.\n\nHe was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.\n\nBy 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.\n\nIn 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy.\n\nRoosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement.\n\nWhen the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.\n\nFeeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.\n\nAs the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. \n\n\n\nand bush is definitely the worst
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George Washington, the man was very selfless and loyal to his country.  Plus, if it weren't for him, we'd have a king for a ruler in the US, not a president.
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All the Bushes and Clintons....everyone needs to study up a little bit.\n\nFavorite:  Abraham Lincoln.  His writings alone qualify him for this post, regardless of his accomplishments.\n\nLeast Favorite:  Franklin Pierce.   This kid was a mess.  The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the civil war and unrest in the west.  Drank himself to death and once ran over an elderly woman when driving his carraige drunk.  What a tool.