Rating the presidents: Washington to Clinton

Political Science Quarterly

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-187

  Schlesinger Jr , Arthur M ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/2657937     Document Type: Article

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1. Mrs. Leonard Lyons, after reading the New York Times Magazine article, wrote the author, not without justice: "Some categories other than yours come to mind: Dope, Lucky Stiff, Bumbler, etc. - which makes me realize how resilient Americans are if they can survive such as these."
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower to James C. Hagerty, 18 October 1966 in R. Gordon Hoxie, Command Decision and the Presidency (New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1977), 245.
3. Richard M. Nixon on Meet the Press, 10 April 1988 (responding to a question by John Chancellor).
4. Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929), 234, 194.
5. The Kennedy quotes are from Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 674-675.
6. Harry S. Truman, "The Eight Best Presidents, the Eight Worst Presidents and Why," Parade, 3 April 1988.
7. Malcolm Bingay, "Chides Historian for Hasty Appraisal of FDR As 'Great,'" Akron Beacon-Journal, 4 November 1948.
8. Robert K. Murray to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 15 March 1983.
9. Richard M. Nixon, Six Crises (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962; Warner paperback, 1979), 189.
10. James Thurber, Let Your Mind Alone! (New York: Harper, 1937), 141.
11. Alvin S. Felzenberg, "'There You Go Again': Liberal Historians and the New York Times Deny Ronald Reagan His Due," Policy Review, March-April 1997.
12. William J. Ridings, Jr. and Stuart B. McIver, Rating the Presidents: From the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent (New York: Citadel Press, 1997).
13. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Crowded Hours (New York: Scribner's, 1933), 324-25.
14. Henry Adams, "The Session, 1869-1870" in G. E. Hochfield, ed., The Great Secession Winter of 1860-61 and Other Essays, (New York: Sagamore Press, 1958), 197.
15. Charles de Gaulle, The Edge of the Sword (New York: Criterion, 1960), 81.
16. Woodrow Wilson, Leaders of Men, T. H. Vail Motter, ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952), 53-54.
17. Anne O'Hare McCormick, "Roosevelt's View of the Big Job," New York Times Magazine, 11 September 1932.
18. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address.
19. Elting Morison testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 19 January 1978.
20. James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (London: Macmillan, 1888), 1, chap. 8.