Obama at 41% approval in new CNN Poll of Polls; Congress at 14%. Thirty-three percent of people questioned in the poll say that Obama is the worst president since the Second World War, with 28% saying George W. Bush was the worst. Thirteen percent picked Richard Nixon, with 8% naming Jimmy Carter.
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At a press conference Tuesday, Mr. Obama said he continues to believe Mr. Trump “will not be president.”. “I have a lot of faith in the American people,” Mr. Obama said. “And I think they recognize that being president is a serious job.
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As Princeton’s Sean Wilentz wrote in 2006, when Bush still sat in the Oval Office, “Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.” And bear in mind that Bush also presided over the emergence of one of the most devastating financial crises in the country’s history.
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(Recommended: The 5 Worst U.S. Presidents) The academic surveys also consistently place near the bottom James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. Now here’s a man who truly lacked character and watched helplessly as his country descended into the worst crisis of its history.
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There was, of course, the Teapot Dome scandal that implicated major figures in his administration, but there was never any evidence that the president himself participated in any venality. As Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, put it, “Harding wasn’t a bad man.
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(Recommended: America's 5 Worst Wartime Presidents) In the realm of commission failure, three presidents come to mind—Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.
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View Comments Print. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that President Obama will go down as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history — perhaps the worst — and that Mr. Obama’s comments about him a day earlier were a “badge of honor” of sorts. “I have a lot of faith in the American people,” Mr. Obama said.
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When Quinnipiac last asked the question, in 2006, Bush topped the list, with 34% saying he was the nation's worst president. According to the poll, Ronald Reagan (at 35%) tops the list of the best president since WWII, with 18% saying Bill Clinton was best, followed by John F. Kennedy at 15% and Obama at 8%.
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One approach would be to consult the various academic polls on presidential rankings that have been conducted from time to time since Harvard’s Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. pioneered this particular survey scholarship in 1948. Bad idea. Most of those surveys identify Warren G. Harding of Ohio as the worst ever.
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“He’s going to go down as one of the worst, perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States,” Mr. Trump said on “Fox and Friends.” “You know, it’s interesting — when they make those statements, that means that, in way, it’s a badge of honor, because that’s the one that they’re looking at.”.
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Obama was the worst president since George Washington. Obama was the worst president since Washington.