How will they be remembered?

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Reagan will be remembered as the better president, but, I think both were perfect for their respective eras.

The 1980's were a time of war and fear, and Reagan successfully won the Cold War.  It took a strong character to stand up to the Soviets, as Reagan did.

The 1990's were an era of good times.  Jobs boomed, the dotcom industry grew, the economy grew, etc.  Clinton was the Eisenhower of the 1990's; he governed in between two storms.  Eisenhower was in the intermission between the Nazi threat and the Communist threat; Clinton was in between the Communist threat and the Muslim Fundamentalist Threat.

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In my mind, the Cold War went inot full force during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but you can argue it was during the Korean War.