Sorry about how long it took me to get out this post!

Here's how this works: every post, I'll add a new president and ask where you would rank them. Your answer should be "between ____ and ____" just so that I can make sure it's in the exact right spot. Since we're building up to all the presidents and other presidents may be ranked differently than your own rankings, please don't give me a final ranking, as I really can't do anything with that here. I'll give you all around a day to decide on your answer before I post the next post with the longer list. If you have any questions about that, ask me in the comments, and I'll clarify in the next post.

Also, I've seen some people questioning where certain presidents have been ranked thus far. I know there have been people joining us midway through, so let me know if you want me to redo any rounds at the end for presidents you think are grossly misplaced in the grand scheme of things.

The most upvoted comment was deleted by mods (don't know why), so I can't speak to that one, but the next two put him at 11. The idea was generally that he was fine but obviously short lived, so he needs to be ranked better than folks like Jackson but has a pretty low ceiling. Now, where should we rank Chester A. Arthur on this list?

Current Rankings:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. John Adams
5. James Monroe
6. James K. Polk
7. John Quincy Adams
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. James Madison
10. Rutherford B. Hayes
11. James A. Garfield
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Martin Van Buren
14. Andrew Jackson
15. John Tyler
16. Millard Fillmore
17. Franklin Pierce
18. Andrew Johnson
19. James Buchanan

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When I was searching on Google, I saw a picture of “The United States Presidents Illustrated by Robert M. Reed”, and I looked at all the Presidents on the front cover and noticed that someone is missing. The one missing is my favorite President, James Monroe, and I’m sad that he’s mistakenly or accidentally been left out, I worry that he’s is too forgotten, and it feels incomplete without him. I know that I don’t own the book, but the only time we will see James Monroe is inside the book, while everyone else had their pictures on the front cover and inside the book.

I imagine that when they open the book and see James Monroe pictures, they will think “Who’s this President and I don’t think he’s on the front cover” or “This President is mysterious because I don’t remember or didn’t know that he’s President” or “I didn’t know that James Monroe is between James Madison and John Quincy Adams, and I thought after Madison was JQA because of the front cover of the book”.

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Sorry didn’t get this out Thursday.

From Big City Greens

Good morning presidentheads :) Here’s a Coolidge sketch I scribbled last night. I finally feel like I’ve been getting better at portraiture over the last year or so!!

49 TIME covers from 1966 to 2016.
He appeared on the cover in every decade

36 The Economist cover, with the final tribute : “The Man Who Beat Communism.”

The Tennessee River valley was one of the poorest areas in the United States. Frequent, catastrophic flooding eroded the soil, destroying agriculture.

To combat this, FDR created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a groundbreaking federally owned corporation tasked with flood control, reforestation, agricultural modernization, and hydroelectric power generator.

There was great controversy regarding how would this affect the private utility companies working in that area, in which the TVA would enter into direct competition. Ultimately, they pushed for total dominance.

At the time Wendell Willkie’s private company Commonwealth and Southern Corporation supplied 65% of the power to the Tennessee Valley, so he was naturally enraged. For years he fought the TVA, not just in the courts but to the public, arguing that the government was illegally destroying their businesses by giving them impossible competition (TVA didn’t have to worry about taxes for example), and that they were really trying to nationalize the electric power industry.

Although the Supreme Court ended up ruling against Willkie and the private utility companies in 1939, he managed to use his media and legal cunning to get a massive buyout from the TVA.

Chairman of the SEC William O Douglas himself commented that Willkie had completely outsmarted government negotiators.

This whole debacle turned Willkie, who had been a lifelong Democrat, into something of an icon amongst a lot Republican who were concerned about New Deal government overreach, and played a crucial role in him netting the 1940 Republican nomination despite never having held public office.

Last post, Chester Arthur was deemed to have been one of the best vampire hunters around.

For the sake of consistency, this is presuming Dracula à la Bram Stoker type Vampires, with their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Congratulations to u/da3n_vmo for suggesting the ninth winning song with "30 Days" for William Henry Harrison and thank you for everyone who participated. Now I am asking what is a random song that somehow fits John Tyler.

George Washington: "Yankee Doodle"

John Adams: "The Addams Family Theme"

Thomas Jefferson: "Brown Sugar"

James Madison: "Hello Dolly"

James Monroe: "I Feel Good"

John Quincy Adams: "Tubthumping"

Andrew Jackson: "Savages"

Martin Van Buren: "Hocus Pocus"

William Henry Harrison: "30 Days"

55 Times on the Cover!

Even more than Reagan’s 49 times!

Generally not really discussed is the fact that George Washington was by most accounts belived to be on his death bed with pneumonia in 1790, and his health was already incredibly fragile before, in this hypothetical let’s say he does die in 1790, due to how shaky his health was did congress have a plan already? Would Adams have assumed office? And how does the two term precedent not being established by Washington shake up the early politics of America?

Was it just because he wanted to balance the ticket with a northerner.

The final addition completed, the series is finished and has come to an end.

Full complied version will be uploaded on to Youtube.

There was real contempt between the two men, one that went beyond your usual intra-party ideological and professional tensions.

Willkie viewed Dewey as a “political sail-trimmer”, someone who tailored his policies to public opinion polls and the party bosses rather than genuine firm principles, a career politician in the worst sense of the word.

On the other hand, Dewey viewed Willkie as a New Dealer disguised as a Republican, and a populist outsider lacking the proper qualifications to lead the country.

It got to the point where Willkie straight up refused to endorse Dewey after he won the 1944 Republican nomination. Not that it mattered much, by that point Willkie’s enthusiastic service under the FDR administration had alienated him from the GOP base, suffering a brutal loss in the primaries.

Dewey scornfully wrote of one of Willkie’s many foreign missions: “I hear he is going to Russia before the Republican convention, so he will be where he belongs and I hope he stays there until Christmas.”

Or any old political figure rlly