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Happy President's Day .Who was your favorite president, and why?

Asked by MrGrimm888 (19473points) February 20th, 2017

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Seek's avatar

For intellect and general historical greatness, Thomas Jefferson.

For “what a great guy-ness”, Teddy Roosevelt. Yay national parks!

For general, “egads I’m glad he was president then and I wish he was again,” Franklin D. Roosevelt.

ucme's avatar

Jimmy Carter, i’m a sucker for a toothy grin

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

I’m actually with @Seek on this one.

ragingloli's avatar

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, because of his muscles. He has the best muscles.

flutherother's avatar

John F Kennedy. He wasn’t perfect but he represented an America that still had faith in itself.

elbanditoroso's avatar

FDR. he accomplished a lot, in very bad time, even against the republican opposition.

We need an FDR today.

Jaxk's avatar

If I go with the best in my lifetime, it would be Reagan and Eisenhower. I liked Kennedy but he was pretty wild and brought us closer to nuclear war than I would like to see in this day and age.

Darth_Algar's avatar

James Buchanan, because he was fucking fabulous.

Cruiser's avatar

TJ Thomas Jefferson. He popularized macaroni and cheese in the United States.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

@ragingloli I liked president Not Sure better.

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

FDR for getting shit done.

And another vote for TR, too. He was born wealthy but fought wealthy interests. He treated African Americans as people, using Booker T. Washington as an advisor.

Yeah, they weren’t perfect, nobody is, especially when your job is juggling the interests of all America, the other branches, and world events.

Darth_Algar's avatar

In all seriousness, I’d probably have to go with the two Roosevelts overall.

MrGrimm888's avatar

Lots of Roosevelt fans here…

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

LBJ was a great president for domestic policy and a failure for Vietnam.

Cartoon depictions of poor people with torn clothes and no shoes were reality in 1950s America. Thanks to President Johnson and the War on Poverty, we don’t have many people living like that, without electricity and heat.

With Medicare, our elderly have health care.

He blew it on Vietnam, but LBJ was a huge success with the War on Poverty, Medicare, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts cannot be ignored.

Zaku's avatar

I’m with the Roosevelts and Jefferson, too.

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