Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?

[yurbud]

11. it's off-topic, but I strongly suspect some who previously were at the bottom were victims

of political winds after their time.

Case in point: Ulysses S. Grant. Was there corruption in his cabinet? Sure. By today's standards though, it wouldn't even merit a mention.

Probably he rated so lowly for so long because he aggressively fought the Ku Klux Klan and by the 1880's, most white Americans were tired of racial struggles and wanted to put the issue on the back burner for about 80 years.

Sometimes the real heroes of history don't get the credit they deserve or are forgotten altogether like Smedley Butler, Fannie Lou Hamer, and whoever that Russian missile launch officer was who didn't push the button when he saw a swarm of American missiles coming over the pole (that turned out to be a solar flare or something).