INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL

A Presidents Day headline reads "Lincoln top president in rankings by historians" and publishes an Associated Press report on a study performed by a group of historians on behalf of C-SPAN.


WATCHDOG: What is not mentioned is the study by the London Times which was reported yesterday over AOL.

C-SPAN ranks the top eleven in this order: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Jefferson, Eisenhower, Wilson, Reagan and Lyndon Johnson.

London Times ranks the top eleven as: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Truman, Reagan, Polk, Wilson and Kennedy.

As for the worse three in descending order: C-SPAN lists Pierce, Andrew Johnson and Jams Buchanan. The London Times lists Van Buren, Pierce and Buchanan.

As for George W. Bush, our most recent president, C-SPAN shows him as 36 out of the 42. The London Times has him as 37th, just ahead of Richard Nixon.

Bill Clinton? C-SPAN: 15th. London Times: 23rd.

Later in the article, the Intell inserts "Buchanan lived in Lancaster during his presidency." It must have been a heck of a commute!