Worst U.S. presidents

In honor of Presidents Day 2009, C-SPAN released results of its second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. A cross-section of 65 presidential historians ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership.

Who were the Bottom 10?

33. Rutherford B. Hayes
34. Herbert Hoover
35. John Tyler
36. George W. Bush
37. Millard Fillmore
38. Warren G. Harding
39. William Henry Harrison
40. Franklin Pierce
41. Andrew Johnson
42. James Buchanan

To read the rest of the list, and to find out about the methodology behind the rankings, visit C-SPAN.

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