Was Ronald Reagan a Great President?

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

Last century ... top 5

1. Ronald Reagan
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. FDR
4. Dwight Eisenhower
5. Woodrow Wilson

Interesting.

I can agree with numbers 1, 2 and 5.

While I agree Eisenhower was a great military commander, I see nothing he did as a President that would land him in the top five.

[Nahum]

My father swears up and down that Nixon would have been considered one of the greatest, if not for Watergate.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

My father swears up and down that Nixon would have been considered one of the greatest, if not for Watergate.

I do agree that Nixon, other than Watergate (and a couple of Supreme court judges) would have been one of the greatest as well.

But very few can hold a candle to the great Ronalda Magnus.

[SDG]

Ike was a man's conservative ... not too far right.

He was the right man for the Cold War ...

He also increased our presence as a superpower.

Very popular president when elected for a second term.

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

No doubt. Greatest one in the last century.

Alas we agree

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

If Reagan is the greatest of the past century, Carter and GW Bush are running neck and neck for the title of worst.

I think history will be kinder to GWB than his contemporaries. His most controversial initiatives have proven to be successful despite the ongoing media attacks. Iraq is on the road toward stability. Afghanistan, which hasn't had a stable government since Tamerlane is being cleaned up.

GW Bush's real failing has been that he hasn't been careful to keep his base positive and engaged. Now that failing may hurt the Republicans in the fall.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

Was Ronald Reagan a Great President?

Yes! My olderst son was born the day before President Reagan was re-elected in 1984 so his middle name is "Reagan"!!

Momma had him one day and went home the next AND voted for President Reagaon on the way home from the hospital!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My biggest regret is that after working on President Reagan's 1980 Presidential Campaign as a volunteer at the state campagin headquarters in JAX, MS I was too broke of a newlywed to take advantage of the invitation to the inaugauration I received.

I saw President Reagan twice in person. Once about 3 days before he was elected President and the second time in Austin Texas around the time he was kicking off his 1984 re-election campagin.

In the most liberal city in Texas he drew a crowd of 30,000 if memory serves me correctly down to the banks of Town Lake and that was people who were willing to wait in the lines to go through the metal detectors.

That same year the Democrat Governor brought in Walter Mondale for a rally on the State Capitol steps and even let the State Employees have half a day off to try and pad the crowd but Mondale still drew only few thousand people.

[Hoovie]

Reagan was the greatest... right after my "Uncle" Herbert Hoover






J/K!!

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

I think part of W's problem is what made Reagan great he could inspire through a speech. W can't. But worst Prez for last century FDR.

FDR was the worst, With LBJ being a close second. Carter gives LBJ a run for his money.

Reagan was our best president of the last century.

RandyWayne and PP declare an affinity for Nixon, but Nixon was in actuality what GWB is falsely painted to be by the press. Wage controls and price controls are not the product of a freedom-loving president. Neither are S&L bailouts. What takes the cake is the "war on drugs" Nixon started, which started the USA down the road to a police state.

I agree that we are about to get the worst president in history.

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

FDR was the worst, With LBJ being a close second. Carter gives LBJ a run for his money.
Reagan was our best president of the last century.

RandyWayne and PP declare an affinity for Nixon, but Nixon was in actuality what GWB is falsely painted to be by the press. Wage controls and price controls are not the product of a freedom-loving president. Neither are S&L bailouts. What takes the cake is the "war on drugs" Nixon started, which started the USA down the road to a police state.

I agree that we are about to get the worst president in history.

Couldn't agree more.

There is this myth that surrounds FDR that he was a great President because he "brought us out of the depression" but despite the great damage that the new deal caused that we are still trying to fix today even then it may not have been the great idea some seem to think it was for instance the book FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
the title speaks for itself. When The Supreme Court shot down his programs his threats of packing the court was used to force the Justices into going along with him. The Court that legislates from the bench is a direct result of his legacy.