Most overrated president

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    Eisenhower, Madison,  Monroe

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     The two term Presidents are all overrated.    The two term Presidents are allowed infallibity, and the electorate tends to push the fallibilities of a two term President forward to the one term President who follows.   Reagan and Clinton are the most recent; they will always be overated, and their mistakes taken from their Presidencies and blamed on the hapless Bush's.

      Two term Presidents tend to get their faces on money; almost all of them show up somewhere. 

     Grant, for example,  doesn't deserve to be on any bill.

     Kennedy will eventually be underated.  He was lucky to have Eisenhower and Johnson around him, who contrasted so starkly with Kennedy's image.    But, Kennedy was not saved from having a star crossed Presidency that follows most two term Presidents.  Just about every day of Kennedy's Presidency has been turned over and analyzed.  Eisenhower's Presidency gets no critical attention at all, and he is treated as a kind Cold War Washington.

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       Jackson is unpopular with liberals today because of the The Trail of Tears, the forced   migration of the Cherokees.  Jackson in this era of banking mergers and the credit industry looks very peculiar for throwing out the banking system.

     Jackson is  not overrated because at the present time almost noone rates him highly.

     Jackson hand picked Polk for the Presidency, which was good.   And Jackson said Russia would become the greatest threat and worst enemy of the U.S.  By 1850 the majority of Americans recognized Russia as the greatest threat to democracy in Europe.

      Nixon going to China is the most overrated act by a President of the 20th Century.  Eisenhower overall was the most bumbling error prone President of the 20th Century, with one mistake after another for two terms.  The economy was sustained in the 50s by the New Deal and union labor.

     McKinley is fast becoming the most overrated President, and because Clinton said Cleveland was his favorite President, and Bush is saying McKinley was his favorite President, that entire gilded age era is becoming overrated for Presidents.   Theodore Roosevelt said McKinley had the backbone of a chocolate eclair, and I'm not going to doubt Teddy on that one.

      Historians' rating of Presidents is a different matter from popular ratings of Presidents.   Historians overrate the influences of Madison and Monroe.