Americans Say Reagan Is Greatest President, Poll Finds

He was the greatest.

Reagan? Really? Iran-Contra should have put him in prison. Too many stupid Americans were polled. Worst environmental record in history.

reagan was a terrorist collaborator--the iran hostage crisis--thats how he won the white house

Washington should be first. He risked everything... up to and including his life. Lincoln should be last. He caused many thousands of Americans to die needlessly. Reagan is by far the best in modern times.

As an historian, I am always amazed that the one indispensible American (president or not) who made the US democratic republic possible, George Washington, almost never ranks as the best. Many of the recents - Clinton, George HW Bush, etc.,- will come and go as the tides of history shift, but Washington will endure. These poll results always reflect the lack of history teaching in our schools. No George Washington, no US as we know it.

The choice of Reagan as the greatest President only shows the power of printed lies.
Larry

ONE MORE FOR THE GIPPER, RIP 'MR REGAN'

Bill clinton was the best, He balance the budjet

Ronald Reagan made the entire world a much safer place. The USA had over 25,000 nuclear warheads, most strategic warheads had the same power as a train of box cars filled with TNT that stretched 2,000 miles (3000 kilometers) long. Three Ohio class "boomers" could destroy the entire USSR with their 24 missles with up to 10 independently targeted reentry vehicles. Just having these weapons is dangerous. We only have to look at the "Broken Arrow" incidents in Palomares Spain or Thule Greenland to realize the danger. Just one accident, that triggered a nuclear blast would have ended civilization. If either nuclear power detected a blast, there would be no half measures, the entire arsenal would have been unleashed. Reagan's vision and conviction as well as his determination and tact in major arms reduction brought freedom to millions of Eastern Europeans, spread democracy and ended a 30 year cold war. Those of us who lived through the Cuban crisis and saw the empty supermarket shelves, the threats of the Cold War were very real. Had the arms race continued, one can only speculate on the eventual outcome. I do remember Khrushchev pounding his fists at the United Nations and telling the United States "We will bury you". Had the nuclear buttons been pushed, socio-economic deferences and domestic policies would have made no differences. What the blasts and radiation missed, the resulting nuclear winter would have finished.

Nancy you pay taxes? As a foreigner we agree but are suprised at Clinton being rated so high. We think about his Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac housing policies that really are the reason for these problems you have now. Well anyway it will continue to Change and if it is true thay vote for recent more than the founders than OBAMA is not doing so well. We foreigners do not find him very well fitted for the Job. Compared to Regan he has made so many economic blunders that will, Nancy, only make the people like the Prisident and his men in office rich. Humm.