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Lechasseur
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« on: August 10, 2017, 08:12:58 PM »
« edited: October 24, 2017, 04:15:00 PM by Lechasseur »

Who would have been the Anglosphere head of government you would have liked best who was in power at any given moment?
I'll start in 1940:

1940-1945: Winston Churchill (UK)
1945-1949: Harry Truman (US)
1949-1951: Robert Menzies (Australia)
1951-1953: Winston Churchill (UK)
1953-1961: Dwight Eisenhower (US)
1961-1966: Robert Menzies (Australia)
1966-1972: Keith Holyoake (NZ)
1972-1974: Richard Nixon (US)
1974-1977: Gerald Ford (US)

1977-1979: Jimmy Carter (US)
1979-1989: Margaret Thatcher (UK)
1989-1993: George H. W. Bush (US)
1993-1996: John Major (UK)
1996-2007: John Howard (Australia)
2007-2013: Stephen Harper (Canada)
2013-2015: Tony Abbott (Australia)
2015-2016: David Cameron (UK)

2016: Theresa May (UK)
2016-2017: Bill English (NZ)
2017-present: Theresa May
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2017, 10:40:12 PM »

Best


1945: FDR (USA)
1945-1951: Clement Attlee (UK)
1951-1953: Harry Truman (USA)

1953-1957: Dwight Eisenhower (USA)
1957-1960: Walter Nash (New Zealand)
1960-1963: Harold Macmillan (UK)
1963-1964: Lester Pearson (Canada)
1964-1969: Lyndon Johnson (USA)
1969-1970: Harold Wilson (UK)
1970-1974: Pierre Trudeau (Canada)
1974-1976: Harold Wilson (UK)
1976-1977: James Callaghan (UK)
1977-1981: Jimmy Carter (USA)
1981-1984: Pierre Trudeau (Canada)
1984-1991: Bob Hawke (Australia)

1991-1997: John Major (UK)
1997-1999: Tony Blair (UK)
1999-2008: Helen Clark (New Zealand)
2008-2010: Gordon Brown (UK)
2010-2017: Barack Obama (USA)
2017-Present: Justin Trudeau (Canada)


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« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2017, 01:21:07 AM »

Meh, I'm expanding to including other countries I know about as well:

1940-1945: Winston Churchill, Conservative (UK)
1945-1949: Harry Truman, Democratic (USA)
1949-1954: David Ben-Gurion, Mapai (Israel)
1954-1957: Robert Menzies, Liberal (Australia)
1957-1961: Harold MacMillan, Conservative (UK)
1961-1963: David Ben-Gution, Mapai (Israel)
1963-1966: Robert Menzies, Liberal (Australia)
1966-1969: Tage Erlander, Social Democratic Party (Sweden) (Seems like an odd choice, but Erlander was great on foreign affairs and this time period had very few good right-leaning leaders)
1969-1974: Golda Meir, Alignment (Israel)
1974-1976: Miki Takeo, Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) (A lonely man fighting against massive corruption. Admirable.)
1976-1977: Gerald Ford, Republican (USA) (lol less than a month, but whatever)
1977-1982: Menachem Begin, Likud (Israel)
1982-1987: Ronald Reagan, Republican (USA)
1987-1990: Margaret Thatcher, Conservative (UK)
1990-1992: Yitzhak Shamir, Likud (Israel)
1992-1993: George H.W. Bush, Republican (USA)
1993-1996: Václav Havel, Civic Democratic Alliance (Czech Republic)
1996-1999: John Howard, Liberal (Australia)
1999-2001: José María Aznar, People's Party (Spain)
2001-2005: George W. Bush, Republican (USA)
2005-2008: Álvaro Uribe, Colombia First (Colombia)
2008-2009: George W. Bush, Republican (USA)
2009-2011: Stephen Harper, Conservative (Canada)
2012-2015: Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud (Israel)
2015-2016: David Cameron, Conservative (UK)
2016-2016: Matteo Renzi, Democratic (Italy)
2016-2017: Theresa May, Conservative (UK)
2017-Current: Mauricio Macri, Republican Proposal (Argentina)

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« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2017, 10:21:34 AM »

Bumped in order to go with its' European equivalent
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« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2017, 12:50:52 PM »

1940-1945: FDR
1945-1953: Harry Truman

1953-1961: Dwight Eisenhower
1961-1963: Harold McMillan

1963-1966: Robert Menzies(Apparently wiki has him as one of best pm)
1966-1968: Lester Pearson

1968-1969: Keith Holyoake(from wiki best out of horrible group)
1968-1973: Richard Nixon
1973-1974: Pierre Trudeau ( Out of an absolute horrible list)
1974-1977: Gerald Ford
1977-1979: Robert Muldoon(Just wiki him and looks the best out of this bad group)
1979-1981: Margaret Thatcher
1981-1989: Ronald Reagan
1989-1990: Margaret Thatcher
1990-1993: George HW Bush

1993-1995: Jean Chretien
1995-2001: Bill Clinton

2001-2005: George W Bush
2005-2006: Tony Blair
2006-2010: Stephen Harper
2010-2016: David Cameron
2016-2017: Theresa May

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« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2017, 02:39:53 PM »

1945-1945: FDR
1945-1953: Harry Truman

1953-1955: Winston Churchill
1955-1957: Louis St. Laurent
1957-1961: Dwight Eisenhower
1961-1963: John F. Kennedy
1963-1965: Lyndon Johnson
1965-1968: Harold Wilson
1968-1979: Pierre Trudeau

1979-1980: Joe Clark
1980-1984: Pierre Trudeau
1984-1984: John Turner

1984-1990: Brian Mulroney
1990-1993: John Major

1993-1998: Jean Chretien
1998-2002: Tony Blair
2002-2003: Jean Chretien
2003-2006: Paul Martin
2006-2007: Tony Blair
2007-2009: Gordon Brown
2009-2016: Barack Obama
2016-Present: Justin Trudeau
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« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2017, 02:53:45 PM »

Disraeli.
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