{"id":577334,"date":"2021-06-30T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577334"},"modified":"2021-06-30T12:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:35:54","slug":"presidential-historians-list-obama-among-top-10-presidents-rank-trump-near-bottom-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/presidential-historians-list-obama-among-top-10-presidents-rank-trump-near-bottom-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Historians List Obama Among Top 10 Presidents, Rank Trump Near Bottom: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresidential-historians-list-obama-among-top-10-presidents-rank-trump-near-bottom-survey%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1230558987-1024x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Presidential historians ranked former President Barack Obama among the top 10 presidents in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/presidentsurvey2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a> for C-SPAN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, C-SPAN is releasing the results of its fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, in which a cross-section of presidential historians and professional observers of the presidency ranked the country\u2019s 44 former chief executives on 10 characteristics of leadership,\u201d C-SPAN said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/static.c-span.org\/assets\/documents\/presidentSurvey\/2021+Press+Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham Lincoln ranked first, as he did in the previous three versions of the survey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.7754010695187\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RESULTS: C-SPAN&#8217;s 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership: <\/p>\n<p>Top 10 Presidents<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/51PjAwPliK\">https:\/\/t.co\/51PjAwPliK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cspanPOTUSsurvey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cspanPOTUSsurvey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WR660IvM0j\">pic.twitter.com\/WR660IvM0j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1410232770845159431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFormer President Donald Trump enters the ranks for the first time in the #41 position. His highest rankings were in Public Persuasion (#32) and Economic Management (#34). The historians ranked him in last place (#44) for Moral Authority and Administrative Skills,\u201d the press release continued.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, on the other hand, rose from his #12 ranking in 2017 to #10. In the category of \u201cMoral Authority,\u201d Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/presidentsurvey2021\/?category=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranked<\/a> #6, behind only Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Theodore Roosevelt. Trump ranked last in Moral Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the survey included 142 historians and \u201cprofessional observers of the presidency,\u201d C-SPAN explained, adding that the team represented 50% increase since 2017, as well as one \u201creflecting new diversity in race, gender, age and philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cC-SPAN\u2019s success in assembling a truly diverse group of historians and professional observers of the presidency only strengthens an already strong poll,\u201d said Amity Shlaes, chairman of the Calvin Coolidge Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat stands out to me here is the stability,\u201d said presidential historian Richard Norton Smith. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting, particularly at the top and bottom of the list, how little significant movement there has been. By contrast, the living presidents seem much more likely to fluctuate. It\u2019s almost as if there was a boomerang effect where historians go overboard a bit when presidents leave office and they are at the nadir of their partisan reputation, and then they graduate to a less political status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Edna Greene Medford, professor of history at Howard University, was not pleased that so many slave-holding presidents continue to hover at the top of the list. \u201cDespite the fact that we\u2019ve become more aware of the historical implications of racial injustice in this country and we\u2019re continuing to grapple with those issues, we still have slaveholding presidents at or near the top of the list. So even though we may be a bit more enlightened about race today, we are still discounting its significance when evaluating these presidents,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At the #41 ranking, Trump scored right below William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia 31 days into his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The only presidents who ranked below Trump were Franklin Pierce, who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that led to Bleeding Kansas; Andrew Johnson, who was impeached and opposed rights for black Americans; and James Buchanan, whose ineffective leadership is widely considered a leading factor in the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/grandson-of-10th-president-john-tyler-dies-at-95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grandson Of 10th President John Tyler Dies At 95<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential historians ranked former President Barack Obama among the top 10 presidents in a recent survey for C-SPAN.\u201cAs the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, C-SPAN is releasing the results &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313736,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1230558987-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Presidential Historians List Obama Among Top 10 Presidents, Rank Trump Near Bottom: Survey","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1230558987-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Presidential Historians List Obama Among Top 10 Presidents, Rank Trump Near Bottom: Survey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}