Who was the best president?

[Kase]

I've found out a lot of info lately on presidents that I didn't know about (ex. FDR, Lincoln), which really changed the way I thought about them.

We obviously have a real winner for a POTUS right now....so if you could choose one president, from any point in time, to help out with all these problems....who would it be? And what qualities do they have that would help?

I'm not real knowledgable on presidential history, so I'm hoping you guys can give me some good and bad aspects on past leaders.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Calvin Coolidge.

He rarely talked, had some of the lowest tax rates in history, the country was prosperous, and all the Progressives hate him and blame him for the depression. He also had enough sense to hire some really smart people to help him make decisions. Andrew Mellon being one of them.

That's good enough for me.

He was also an honorable man of principle.

 

[christman]

This question is almost impossible to really answer. If any of our former presidents were scrutinized, poked, and prodded, all over TV back then like they are now a days, all of them would make anyone in the last 30 years look like Popes.

Society has since changed on what it deems acceptable practice while in public office.

 

[rambone]

John Hancock, 4th President of the Continental Congress.

Famous smuggler, statesman, and patriot.

Told the king to kiss his arse in large calligraphic letters.

Had a bounty upon his head from the royal JBTs.

My kind of guy.

 

[DragonGunner]

Calvin Coolidge.

He rarely talked, had some of the lowest tax rates in history, the country was prosperous, and all the Progressives hate him and blame him for the depression. He also had enough sense to hire some really smart people to help him make decisions. Andrew Mellon being one of them.

That's good enough for me.

He was also an honorable man of principle.

Thats a good President right there....I think if we had George Washington right now he would get things straightened out. More important to me than the best President is ....when did we have the best Americans in history? The President is only a reflection of the people who put him in power...

 

[Kase]

John Hancock, 4th President of the Continental Congress.

Famous smuggler, statesman, and patriot.

Told the king to kiss his arse in large calligraphic letters.

Had a bounty upon his head from the royal JBTs.

My kind of guy.

I like the way he sounds

 

[E5RANGER375]

Jefferson Davis

 

[Kase]

Thats a good President right there....I think if we had George Washington right now he would get things straightened out. More important to me than the best President is ....when did we have the best Americans in history? The President is only a reflection of the people who put him in power...

I'd say 40's to 50's eras

 

[mrjarrell]

Atom beat me to it. Coolidge is, hands down, my favourite. There was a depression in the early 20's when he was in office and he did exactly what he should have to correct it. Nothing. The nation pulled out of it in no time at all and the economy did well after that. He was a great man who believed in limited government.

 

[Duncan]

Washington
He had to do it from scratch , hold a new country together long enough for it to work it's self in to running and deal with one third of the people that did not like the patriots .

 

[Cemetery-man]

Lincoln of course. He put an end to southern aggression!





Isn't that right E5Ranger?

 

[A5guy]

Andrew Jackson. First in a (not long enough) line to tell the international bankers where they could pack it.

 

[badwolf.usmc]

Best? I can't answer that but my favorite is Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[311thewiser]

Andrew Jackson. First in a (not long enough) line to tell the international bankers where they could pack it.

+1000 this! Then Thomas Jefferson cause he has cool quotes and i have been to his house. Man they were short back then!

 

[Fletch]

William Henry Harrison. He dropped dead a month or so after taking office.

 

[Hoosier49er]

Has to be Washington for the reasons already stated.

 

[exelh]

William Henry Harrison, he was only in office a month before dying, so he did the least amount of damage.

 

[Expat]

Thomas Jefferson

 

[jsgolfman]

Is none of the above an option?

 

[Bunnykid68]

Reagan. He cut the tax rate on the rich big time.