Let's talk Presidents: The Good & Bad, the terrible and the great.
I'll start with a few.
Best: Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Washington
Worst: Jackson, Nixon, Bush the Lesser and especially Buchanon.
Why Theodore? Well he completely kicked ass and was moral to the point of near priggishness. Only Old Hickory was probably as tough and he was pretty much evil. Teddy (as he hated to be called) was a trustbuster, smart military mind, trustbuster, progressive, fiscally conservative as far as paying for what you spend, in favor of goverment healthcare, the first green President and he more than anyone else thrust the US onto the world stage with both the Great White Fleet and negotiating the peaceful ending to the Russo-Japanese War.
As a man, he was too awesome to be real. If you wrote a story with him as your main character everyone would complain he was the author’s Mary-Sue. He overcame severe asthma and kicked it into submission. He pushed himself like few others. He was a good boxer and wrestler and mastered judo. Would swim the icy Potomac regularly, hunting down the men that stole his boat in a bitter Dakota winter and caught them and brought them to legal justice when almost anyone else in the territory would have just shot them. He was a cattleman, explorer, writer, hunter, boatman, designed his own awesome house, went a long way towards cleaning up the NY police department as Police Commissioner, was shot by an assassin, saved by his eye glass case and as he wasn’t coughing up blood gave his long speech before seeking medical attention to remove the bullet. He explored the River of Doubt that was later named after him. He of course is the last man to run outside of the two parties and beat one of them. He came in second to Wilson and soundly defeated Taft.
I post more of my opinions if this takes off at all. Please add your own and argue and debate.