How to Rate the Presidents
Answer the following questions: Has the president set precedents that have been followed by his/her successors?, For example, Washington established the two-term tradition., For example, Obama has retained Bush's Secretary of Defense., For example...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Answer the following questions: Has the president set precedents that have been followed by his/her successors?
Does the president actually help his/her country? -
Step 2: For example
Has the president set up lasting institutions that have survived the test of time? For example, the Cleveland Administration set up the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Has the president's political appointees been retained by future administrations? , Has the president's policies been continued by future administrations? , Has the president's policies made an impact on world history? , How well did the president manage a crisis? , Consequently, the Soviet Union backed down from this overwhelming show of force.
What leadership qualities did the president have? , He made us feel proud to be Americans again and made us feel good about ourselves.
Were the presidential appointees proficient and competent? , Was the president politically skillful? , Incidentally, that Republican Party's name was later changed to Democratic.
The President skillfully abolished the slave trade, with little opposition from the South.
Was the president diplomatically skillful? , Adams forced France to respect America's neutral rights at sea and secured a treaty to guarantee America's freedom of the seas.
Was the president efficient and effective in getting his legislation approved by Congress? Both Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson get most of their program passed.
Was the president efficient and effective as the leader of his party? , What was the legacy of his administration? , The President sent federal troops to enforce an American citizen's right to public education What about presidential character and integrity? , In this effort, we seek no territorial gain; we seek democracy and world peace; we will oppose our ally, France, in her effort to take the Rhineland from our former enemy, Germany, because we fought the war for universal justice between nations and not for dismemberment of our adversaries. , Think about your feelings on each matter. , Just because you think that they were great or horrible, doesn't mean that everyone else will agree. -
Step 3: Washington established the two-term tradition.
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Step 4: For example
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Step 5: Obama has retained Bush's Secretary of Defense.
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Step 6: For example
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Step 7: Johnson continued Kennedy's fight for civil rights.
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Step 8: For example
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Step 9: Franklin Roosevelt established America as leader of the free world and worked hard to re-establish a world organization dedicated to the pursuit of world peace and non-aggression.
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Step 10: The Soviet Union made an attempt to impose a unilateral peace settlement on the Middle East
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Step 11: when Nixon called up our reserves
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Step 12: put our nuclear forces on alert
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Step 13: and sent the Sixth Fleet into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Step 14: Reagan ended the Cold War
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Step 15: something that seven past presidents from Truman to Carter were unable to do.
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Step 16: Monroe's Richard Rush negotiated the Bagot-Rush Treaty with Great Britain as acting secretary of state
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Step 17: while retaining his job as attorney general.
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Step 18: Jefferson ran his administration through the House of Representatives as leader of the Republican Party and managed to get his program implanted as the Revolution of 1800.
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Step 19: John Adams not only kept us out of war with France
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Step 20: but achieved something that Washington was not able to achieve in the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.
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Step 21: Madison eliminated the Monroe opposition to his administration and skillfully persuaded the Republicans to adopt some of the most objectionable Federalist programs
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Step 22: like the Charter for the Second Bank of the United States.
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Step 23: Eisenhower left the legacy of the federal government's responsibility for social justice.
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Step 24: Wilson stated that America will become a beacon of moral leadership for the rest of the world.
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Step 25: Don't make snap decisions.
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Step 26: Realize that the rating is not everyone else's.
Detailed Guide
Does the president actually help his/her country?
Has the president set up lasting institutions that have survived the test of time? For example, the Cleveland Administration set up the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Has the president's political appointees been retained by future administrations? , Has the president's policies been continued by future administrations? , Has the president's policies made an impact on world history? , How well did the president manage a crisis? , Consequently, the Soviet Union backed down from this overwhelming show of force.
What leadership qualities did the president have? , He made us feel proud to be Americans again and made us feel good about ourselves.
Were the presidential appointees proficient and competent? , Was the president politically skillful? , Incidentally, that Republican Party's name was later changed to Democratic.
The President skillfully abolished the slave trade, with little opposition from the South.
Was the president diplomatically skillful? , Adams forced France to respect America's neutral rights at sea and secured a treaty to guarantee America's freedom of the seas.
Was the president efficient and effective in getting his legislation approved by Congress? Both Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson get most of their program passed.
Was the president efficient and effective as the leader of his party? , What was the legacy of his administration? , The President sent federal troops to enforce an American citizen's right to public education What about presidential character and integrity? , In this effort, we seek no territorial gain; we seek democracy and world peace; we will oppose our ally, France, in her effort to take the Rhineland from our former enemy, Germany, because we fought the war for universal justice between nations and not for dismemberment of our adversaries. , Think about your feelings on each matter. , Just because you think that they were great or horrible, doesn't mean that everyone else will agree.
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