Best POTUS since Eisenhower?

[TDAS04]

Clinton, but I would not consider any of these to be among the ten greatest US Presidents of all time.

[Peter the Lefty]

JFK.

[Goldwater]

Reagan.

[WalterMitty]

clinton.  but ford had a lot of potential.  too bad he wasnt elected in 76.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

JFK.

The guy that orchestrated the Cuban Missile Crisis?

[TNF]

Johnson for his role in establishing the welfare state.

Though literally all of them have been varying shades of awful since Truman.

[RogueBeaver]

Reagan.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

As the OP noted, none of these ranks among our top ten, but of these choices, Carter.

[DevotedDemocrat]

Johnson, followed by Nixon and Ford.

[H. Ross Peron]

LBJ followed probably by Obama and Nixon

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

LBJ followed probably by Obama and Nixon

What attracts you to Nixon? His intentionally short-sighted monetary and economic policies, intended to boost the economy temporarily in order to aid his re-election? His Vietnam policy? How about his America-weakening detente? Or maybe it's the plumbers that are just so awesome. After all, G. Gordon Liddy was a real American badass.

[Vosem]

Reagan, mostly because of the dearth of opposition than anything else. Points to LBJ and GWB.

[Oakvale]

Only on Atlas would people be rating some of the absolute worst Presidents in American history (Bush Jr, Nixon) as the "best since Eisenhower".

[H. Ross Peron]

LBJ followed probably by Obama and Nixon

What attracts you to Nixon? His intentionally short-sighted monetary and economic policies, intended to boost the economy temporarily in order to aid his re-election? His Vietnam policy? How about his America-weakening detente? Or maybe it's the plumbers that are just so awesome. After all, G. Gordon Liddy was a real American badass.

Mostly Nixon's role in opening up China along with creating the EPA and OSHA while pushing for a system of UHC.

[TNF]

LBJ followed probably by Obama and Nixon

What attracts you to Nixon? His intentionally short-sighted monetary and economic policies, intended to boost the economy temporarily in order to aid his re-election? His Vietnam policy? How about his America-weakening detente? Or maybe it's the plumbers that are just so awesome. After all, G. Gordon Liddy was a real American badass.

Mostly Nixon's role in opening up China along with creating the EPA and OSHA while pushing for a system of UHC.

EPA/OSHA were the Democrats' ideas watered down and made weaker by Nixon. He never would have signed them into law were it not for huge public pressure for him to do so. He never advocated for them nor did he support them beyond doing so for political ends, and you can be sure he would have vetoed both if he thought he could have gotten away with it.

[TDAS04]

LBJ followed probably by Obama and Nixon

What attracts you to Nixon? His intentionally short-sighted monetary and economic policies, intended to boost the economy temporarily in order to aid his re-election? His Vietnam policy? How about his America-weakening detente? Or maybe it's the plumbers that are just so awesome. After all, G. Gordon Liddy was a real American badass.

Mostly Nixon's role in opening up China along with creating the EPA and OSHA while pushing for a system of UHC.

Nixon was relatively reasonable on domestic policy.  His foreign policy was extremely heartless, considering what he and Kissinger did to places such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Chile. 

[TNF]

LBJ followed probably by Obama and Nixon

What attracts you to Nixon? His intentionally short-sighted monetary and economic policies, intended to boost the economy temporarily in order to aid his re-election? His Vietnam policy? How about his America-weakening detente? Or maybe it's the plumbers that are just so awesome. After all, G. Gordon Liddy was a real American badass.

Mostly Nixon's role in opening up China along with creating the EPA and OSHA while pushing for a system of UHC.

Nixon was relatively reasonable on domestic policy.  His foreign policy was extremely heartless, considering what he and Kissinger did to places such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Chile. 

He was a war criminal.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

So lemme get this straight here. Being "reasonable" on domestic policy excuses him from running what basically constituted massive scams on both the domestic and foreign policy front? Good to know that the political matrix is all that matters in judging presidencies.

[Lambsbread]

JFK (jfk hack)

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Ah yes. I now remember my specific opposition to Nixon's Vietnam policy. He had opportunities to end the war on the same terms that he eventually did. Nevertheless, from a political standpoint, he judged it as more beneficial to himself to keep it going past the election. In his mind, even if he ended the war pre-election, the populace could then decide that economic issues were front and center and thus vote for the Democrats. Therefore, he kept a war going on needlessly--severely needlessly, I mean so frickin' unnecessarily--for the sake of election victories, allowing both more Americans and more Vietnamese to die.

[© tweed]

LBJ followed probably by Obama and Nixon

What attracts you to Nixon? His intentionally short-sighted monetary and economic policies, intended to boost the economy temporarily in order to aid his re-election? His Vietnam policy? How about his America-weakening detente? Or maybe it's the plumbers that are just so awesome. After all, G. Gordon Liddy was a real American badass.

Mostly Nixon's role in opening up China along with creating the EPA and OSHA while pushing for a system of UHC.

Nixon was relatively reasonable on domestic policy.  His foreign policy was extremely heartless, considering what he and Kissinger did to places such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Chile. 

He was a war criminal.

I mean, the US president is the biggest war criminal in the world at any given time almost by definition.  I voted LBJ despite being the king war criminal among war criminals -- though Nixon was uniquely unaffected by it if we look at those conversations with Kissinger captured on the tapes.

[Sopranos Republican]

Reagan, and JFK are my personal favorites of the group.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

LBJ, he'd be remembered as one of the top 10 had Nixon not sabotaged his peace talks with Vietnam.

[Goldwater]

Reagan, mostly because of the dearth of opposition than anything else. Points to LBJ and GWB.

I always find it odd to see conservatives praising LBJ...

[© tweed]

Reagan, mostly because of the dearth of opposition than anything else. Points to LBJ and GWB.

I always find it odd to see conservatives praising LBJ...

he did kill his share of gooks, in fairness.