10 Best U.S. Presidents

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2. Harding

Please tell me you're joking.

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In order of impact:

1. Reagan - restored American pride and greatness
2. Madison - First wartime Commander In Chief; great constitutionalist
3. Jefferson - Louisiana Purchase; the government that governs least, governs best
4. Coolidge - Roaring '20s
5. Polk - Won the American West
6. GWB - War on Terror
7. Washington - the precedents he set
8. Cleveland - honest guy; lowered tariffs, flat tax
9. Monroe - Monroe Doctrine
10. McKinley - laissez-faire

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I will go down in Atlas History as the only man who put Hoover in everyone of his top 10 Presidents lists.

im surprised anyone would put him in a top 40 presidents list.

You know next to nothing about American History I presume. Most people would put him in the top 20.

Hoover was Roosevelt-lite. Not that Roosevelt-lite wasn't better than Roosevelt-full.

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He greatly increased the size and power of the federal government, unconstitutionally. He should have been impeached.

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Taxes are not unconstitutional, but public works programs are.

And no, if you wanted to have a New Deal the "Philip way," you would have just done it at the state level. Although it's a waste of productivity and doesn't help anything.

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Easy to have a heart with other people's money, and in violation of the Constitution you swore to uphold. Needless to say, we need less people with hearts in Washington. A lot less.

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Which is exactly why he was so terrible. The first president to just completely ignore the Constitution. Well, I guess maybe that was Lincoln or TR, but Hoover sure continued the slippery slope.

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Obviously he should have either tried to abolish the Federal Reserve, or hanged the chairman or appointed a new one.