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Originally Posted by TroyF
It takes a lot of time to fairly judge a president. I voted for Nixon, not necessarily because of policy, but because of other reasons.
In 1975, Nixon would have won a poll like this in a landslide. Now many historians think he was a decent president. Ronnie is on a vast majorities top 10 list now. Up to 1996, historians voted him as low as the 25th ranked president of all time.
We won't know who was best/worst until long after we are all dead.
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Even today he's in the late 20's early 30s for his presidency by historians.
The major mover for this argument is Einenhower, who moved form the 20s to the top ten, after White House tapes were released and we saw all he did behind the scenes, such as keep us out of Vietnam because it would be a quagmire and we'd lose, even though his advisors were arguing for it. We also saw how much the interestates changed us, working to fight mcartyism behind the scenes, beginning and finishing and winning a war (Korea), creation of NASA, dealt with countless recessions and got us out, saw the admitenance of two states, dealt with the cold war, which was a band new thing, etc.