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There's also the old story that southerners wouldn't accept Lincoln's birthday as a holiday. But they certainly would accept the birthday of John Wilkes Booth, as would the republican party.

I'm certainly glad to see Daniel Day-Lewis ranked #1. I thought Lincoln portrayed him beautifully in the movie.

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I think highly of Franklin Pierce, not because he’s a good, bad or a meh President, but because he’s from my home state of New Hampshire. And I’m sure I did a report on him in elementary school.

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Okay yeah…but you have to feel bad for Herbert Hoover. He had a lock on last place until Trump came along.

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Actually, last place generally used to be the presidents on either side of Lincoln -- James Buchanan, for bumbling the country into Civil War, and then Andrew Johnson, for bumbling the resolution

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Hunh. I would have through the guy who bungled the crash of 1929 and helped usher in the Great Depression…but yeah…those two ARE pretty bad. So was Andrew Jackson.

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Harding is still in the bottom 5, right? Please tell me the test question on Teapot Dome in 1996-7 US history wasn't meaningless....

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I don’t like to see George W. Bush creeping up the vibes chart. The centerpiece of his administration was the biggest public-policy disaster of my lifetime. He doesn’t deserve that much credit for being more OK with peaceful transfers of power than the next Republican president.

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So -- who would you say is the best president? And what criteria would you use if you were designing the survey?

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Is the Filmore thing real or AI?

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Real. Google images of Fillmore. It’s uncanny.

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