Reply #5: I wouldn't rate Carter above Clinton

[chaumont58]

and I wouldn't rate Eisenhower that high. There were three recessions during Eisenhower's presidency.
LBJ did get the Civil Rights Bill though, but he knew that the VietNam war was a civil war, but still let the military try to win it.
Carter was just not really a politician, and the presidency requires real political skills. For my money, FDR and HST one and two is spot on. I was born during FDR's second term. HST was the first President I was truly aware of. I came of age during the Eisenhower years and was 25 when JFK was killed, so I remember his Presidency vividly.