02-03-2022, 09:53 PM
(02-03-2022, 04:19 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: https://www.usnews.com/news/special-repo...presidents
OK -- Washington defined the Presidency. Lincoln saved the Union. FDR saved American capitalism and in turn (with Churchill) Western Christian Civilization. For good reason the best five Presidents are typically "Mount Rushmore and FDR". 6th to 12th range from Eisenhower to Obama, and you know how often I compare Obama and Ike.
I note that the first three best presidents on that list were crisis presidents - Washington, Lincoln and FDR. They might have been controversial in their times, but history gave them credit for solving the great problems of their time and gave them a superb place in the history books. Biden and Harris are still in the controversial phase. With the great problems of the crisis still up in the air, no way will they get the blessing of a history that hasn't resolved yet. I do half expect it will eventually happen. The problems will eventually be solved. Simplifying writing the history books requires giving absurd credit to somebody.
But clearly not yet.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.