Barack Obama enters the league of top US Presidents with ranking of 12

In a survey released by the C-SPAN television network ahead of the Presidents Day weekend, a list of the top Presidents of the USA has been drawn up and Barack Obama has entered the list at the ranking of 12. This was the third such survey undertaken by historians of the TV network.
The top five were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 18 February 2017.

The survey had been held earlier in 2000 and 2009 and it was done by asking 91 presidential historians to rank the 43 former presidents based on 10 attributes of leadership. Obama was ranked third in the "pursued equal justice of all" category and 39th in the "relations with congress" category.
At the bottom of the list were Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan - they were ranked as the worst presidents in US history lower even than William Henry Harrison, who had been President for only one month.


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