Four most significant Presidents of the 20th Century

[Lincoln Republican]

Franklin D Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Nixon/Lyndon B Johnson Tied for third
Ronald Reagan

[njwes]

Reagan has no place on these lists.

Neither does JFK, but that won't stop liberal hacks from naming him

[Ban my account ffs!]

Id say

1. FDR
2. Wilson
3. Truman
4. Kennedy or Reagan

[MurrayBannerman]

Federal Reserve and income tax, plus a World War. I'd say Wilson deserves a spot.

[Beet]

FDR (duh)
Teddy R.
Reagan
Nixon

[Rockefeller GOP]

Hoover
FDR
LBJ
Nixon

OK, I'm curious, why did you say Hoover?

Probably cause he just sat on his ass while the nation started to crumble

I think that's a huge misconception...  Hoover was relatively activist...

[Ban my account ffs!]

Hoover was like the big government guy that just didnt have the scale of what he needed to do down.  Hes the guy bargaining up from $10 in ten cent increments when you should be talking $hundreds

[Mr. Smith]

FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Tie for Lyndon Johnson/Ronald Reagan [regrettably so for the latter]

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Federal Reserve and income tax, plus a World War. I'd say Wilson deserves a spot.

All of those things would have happened no matter who was elected in 1912.  Some minor differences in implementation for the first two.  Maybe Teddy would have gotten us involved sooner in the Great War, but probably not.  He would have advocated involvement sooner, but its doubtful Congress would have declared war before 1917.  Taft probably would have kept us the least involved.

[Sol]

I'm curving it, since obviously the earlier presidents are going to have a more dramatic effect.

1. FDR
2. Nixon
3. LBJ
4. Teddy/Reagan

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I'd say Wilson deserves his spot because he really cemented the idea that America was morally obliged to intervene in foreign conflicts. McKinley's and Teddy's foreign jaunts seem to me largely empire-building (with some token Monroe Doctrine-style "this is our continent Yurop!" thrown in).

Wilson seemed to cement this notion that America occupied a special place in the world order, and wasn't some run-of-the-mill imperial power.

The four Presidents that historians would most likely remember about are the two wartime Presidents, JFK (Cuban Missile Crisis, personality cult, assasination) and Reagan (new world order, end of cold war, arguably formed a new Party System).

I mused upon Truman for his role in starting the 50-year stalemate with the Soviets, Nixon for both China and his downfall and Teddy for redefining the role of "executive power".

[The Dowager Mod]

FDR.
Truman.
Nixon.
Wilson.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

FDR (duh)
Teddy R.
Reagan
Nixon

[Mr. Smith]

1. FDR
2. Reagan (unfortunately)
3. LBJ
4. Tie between Nixon and Wilson

[TNF]

Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, John Kennedy

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

FDR
Reagan
Nixon
Wilson

[Mister Mets]

1. FDR
2. Wilson (The Income tax)
3. Reagan (His running mate and running mate's son went on to become Presidents)
4. Nixon (Not a good thing)

[MATTROSE94]

1. Franklin Roosevelt
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Woodrow Wilson