1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. George Washington
4. Lyndon Johnson
5. Theodore Roosevelt
6. Barack Obama
7. Bill Clinton
8. Harry S. Truman
9. John F. Kennedy
10. John Adams
Obama in the top 10?? Come on now. He wasn't terrible but by no means is he in the top 10.
Obama is already ranked 12th by historians, after this disaster of the current administration, I wouldn't be shocked if he is top 10.
A President's stock can fall overtime. With that said, I do agree that a President's image can be helped if their successor ends up being worse. Bush 43's term playing out the way it did certainly helped Bill Clinton's standing with the public and historians, Nixon and Watergate arguably helped LBJ, and Carter's term arguably helped Ford's standing.
