American Presidents: Viewer Survey Results


A Site to Complement C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life Portraits March-December 1999

C-SPAN Survey
of Presidential Leadership

Viewer Survey Results Category:
International Relations

*President's Name*	*Final Score*	*Category Ranking*	*Overall Ranking*
Theodore Roosevelt	84.1	1	3
Thomas Jefferson	83.4	2	5
Richard Nixon	82.6	3	20
Ronald Reagan	82	4	6
Franklin Delano Roosevelt	81.2	5	4
Harry S. Truman	79.2	6	7
James Monroe	78.9	7	9
George Washington	78.6	8	2
Abraham Lincoln	77.5	9	1
George Bush	77.2	10	16
Dwight D. Eisenhower	76.5	11	8
John Adams	71.4	12	11
Woodrow Wilson	71.4	13	13
John Quincy Adams	70.4	14	15
James Madison	66	15	10
James K. Polk	65.2	16	17
Andrew Jackson	63.9	17	14
John F. Kennedy	63.3	18	12
William McKinley	61.5	19	18
Grover Cleveland	56.8	20	21
Gerald Ford	56.1	21	23
William Howard Taft	55.9	22	24
Herbert Hoover	55.3	23	33
Calvin Coolidge	54.9	24	22
Martin Van Buren	52.9	25	30
Zachary Taylor	52.5	26	25
Ulysses S. Grant	52.3	27	29
John Tyler	51.5	28	32
Rutherford B. Hayes	51	29	26
Jimmy Carter	51	30	27
Benjamin Harrison	50.3	31	31
Andrew Johnson	48.2	32	38
James Garfield	48	33	28
Chester Arthur	47.8	34	34
Millard Fillmore	46.4	35	37
Lyndon Baines Johnson	45.1	36	19
William Henry Harrison	44.3	37	35
Franklin Pierce	43.9	38	39
Bill Clinton	43.5	39	36
James Buchanan	43.5	40	41
Warren G. Harding	41.3	41	40
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