Presidential Greatness

GREAT

Lincoln

Washington

FD Roosevelt

NEAR GREAT

Jefferson

Jackson

T Roosevelt

Wilson

Truman

Polk

HIGH AVERAGE

Eisenhower

John Adams

Kennedy

Cleveland

LB Johnson

Monroe

McKinley

AVERAGE

Madison

John Quincy Adams

Harrison

Clinton

Van Buren

Taft

Hayes

George H W Bush

Reagan

Arthur

Carter

Ford

BELOW AVERAGE

Taylor

Coolidge

Fillmore

Tyler

FAILURE

Pierce

Grant

Hoover

Nixon

Andrew Johnson

Buchanan

Harding

 

Source: Schlesinger 1997