Franklin

The OP wants us to identify our favorite President and perhaps write a few positive comments explaining why that President is our favorite President. It is a fact that many people view President Reagan as their favorite President, but for me it is President Truman with President Reagan in second place.

doctor scrumpy

Can we count Al Gore amongst the list, he was the winner in 2000 after all.

Can you name the 5 US Presidents who were murdered in office though ?

rincewind

I can do two from memory. Lincoln and JFK. Not sure about the rest.

And Clinton get's my vote.

Duncs

I thought it was 4?

Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1897-1901), and John F. Kennedy (1961-63).

Mind you these guys also died in office:

William Henry Harrison (1841), the ninth President, died of pneumonia one month to the day after making—in the snow—the longest U.S. presidential inauguration speech on record.

• Zachary Taylor (1849-50), the 12th President, died in 1850 of an inflamed stomach and intestines just 16 months after he took office.

• Warren Harding (1921-23), who presided over a scandal-plagued administration, died suddenly on August 2, 1923. Medical records suggest Harding battled high blood pressure and died of a heart attack. But rumors at the time claimed Harding either took his own life or was poisoned by his wife, who sought to end Harding's notorious philandering.

My favorite is probably Lincoln. Great Speaker and far sighted man.

However after the election of Chimpolean I sometimes wish the south had won their independence.

Franklin

I guess you know he was a Republican President!

Yeah, Lincoln is probably my third favorite President ... got to be really ... when I moved here I settled in the "Land of Lincoln" ... Illinois. Visited good friends at Galesburg some time back, one of them worked at Knox College at Galesburg (about 4 hours south of Chicago), where Lincoln had that famous debate with Stephen Douglas

elfman

But now I want to know more about this legion of the undead that apparently consider Reagan their saviour. (See Post #23)

Duncs

I knew that!

Well now he would probably be a Democrat I reckon. After Lincoln I always had a soft spot for LBJ. I think he was much underated. People think of JFK as having been at the vanguard of civil rights reform but it was LBJ that turned JFK's vision into legislation during the 1963-1968 period. He did a lot of work behind the scenes to harness the energy of black civil rights activists but without letting it explode so far it alienated broader (non-redneck)white opinion. Mind you Vietnam was a bollocks but McNamara doesn't escape the blame for a lot of that in my mind.

Franklin

I had a sneaking suspicion you did! Smart guy that you are!

Yeah, LBJ did a LOT to enact Civil Rights legislation. He was a President who could work out deals to get Civil Rights legislation through Congress and the House of Reps.

bridgecross

This USC votes; Wilson, followed closely by Truman.

Chandler

The next one!

Patrick

James Buchanan because I am related to him on my Mothers side - even though he was blamed for the civil war by not ending slavery when he had the chance early in his presidency

Typical, he came in caused a whole bunch of shit and left without cleaning it up - does it need a comment