Who was the best president ever?

[Alben Barkley]

FDR for the reasons President Johnson said, though Lincoln isn’t too far behind. Washington is important for the precedents he set and the steady hand he governed with at a critical point early in the nation’s history, but as far as concrete accomplishments go he can’t compare to the other two. There’s a reason one of these three is always ranked number one in historical assessments though. Hard to imagine anyone else in the top spot, though some have ranked Teddy Roosevelt up there and I sometimes rank Truman as high as number 2.