Newseum -- Inside Media w/Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, Kenneth Ackerman, David Stewart ("Ranking the U.S. Presidents By the Nation’s Leading Historians"):
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C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and co-CEO Susan Swain talk about their new book, “The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best – and Worst – Chief Executives,” which provides a complete ranking of the presidents based on the network’s much-cited Historian Surveys of Presidential Leadership.
D.C.-based historians Kenneth Ackerman and David O. Stewart, who are featured in chapters on James Garfield and Andrew Johnson, will also participate in the conversation.
Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America’s presidents across a variety of categories including their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, moral authority and more.
Based on interviews conducted over the years with a variety of presidential biographers, this book provides not just a complete ranking of our presidents, but stories and analyses that capture the character of the men who held the office.
The event was introduced by John Maynard from the Newseum who also led the panel discussion.
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RANK1_190427_005.JPG: Mary Beth Moore, Doug Ruby
RANK1_190427_069.JPG: John Maynard
RANK1_190427_083.JPG: David Stewart
RANK1_190427_087.JPG: Kenneth Ackerman
RANK1_190427_096.JPG: Susan Swain
RANK1_190427_112.JPG: (left to right) Brian Lamb, David Stewart, Kenneth Ackerman, John Maynard
RANK1_190427_135.JPG: Brian Lamb
RANK1_190427_219.JPG: Ten Leadership Qualities
* Public Persuasion
* Crisis Leadership
* Economic Management
* Moral Authority
* International Relations
* Administrative Skills
* Relations with Congress
* Vision / Setting an Agenda
* Pursued Equal Justice For All
* Performance Within Context of Times
RANK1_190427_262.JPG: Who's Down? Who's Up?
* Andrew Jackson: 13 --> 18
* Woodrow Wilson: 6 --> 11
* Rutherford B. Hayes: 26 --> 32
* Grover Cleveland: 17 --> 23
* Dwight D. Eisenhower: 9 --> 5
* William J. Clinton: 21 --> 15
* Ulysses S. Grant: 33 --> 22
RANK1_190427_279.JPG: The Modern Presidents
9 -- Ronald Reagan
20 -- George H.W. Bush
15 -- William J. Clinton
33 -- George W. Bush
12 -- Barack Obama
RANK1_190427_294.JPG: The Top Five
5 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
4 -- Theodore Roosevelt
3 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
2 -- George Washington
1 -- Abraham Lincoln
RANK1_190427_354.JPG: The Bottom Five
39 -- John Tyler
40 -- Warren G. Harding
41 -- Franklin Pierce
42 -- Andrew Johnson
43 -- James Buchanan
RANK2_190427_278.JPG: Brian Lamb, David O. Stewart, Kenneth Ackerman, Susan Swain, John Maynard
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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