Posted 10:48 AM by Robert

Gallup Poll - Greatest President

"Who do you regard as the greatest United States president?"

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John Kennedy.........................................17....................................12
Abraham Lincoln.....................................17....................................18
Ronald Reagan........................................13....................................12
Franklin Roosevelt...................................11.....................................9
Bill Clinton.................................................9.....................................12
George Washington..................................7.....................................12

How important is it that the first three presidents on this list were the victims of successful or unsuccessful assassination attempts? ("Victims" in the sense of serious physical harm. An astute reader e-mails that all of these presidents were targets of assassination attempts - in Washington's case, during the Revolutionary War, before he became president. )