We all have a different lifetime, some by multiple decades. In the years you have lived, who would you consider the two best Presidents of your lifetime? There are no right or wrong answers, it is just your opinion and your lived experiences.
The Two Best Presidents of Your Lifetime
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1srelluc
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45 and 47. 
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My favorite on the list is Dwight D. Eisenhower, but I was not alive then.
BluesLegend
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Trump 45, Trump 47, Trump 48 
luiza
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But without an Eisenhower a Kennedy would likely have been impossible -- see war on Industrial Military complex ( modern Deep State).
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And puppets. Which is why the neverending focus on presidents on this site is kinda funny to me.
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Ike was most disingenuous. He complained about the MIC as he’s headed out the door, yet he was instrumental in expanding it. He allowed the demonic and criminal Dulles brothers free reign. The CIA went wild during his presidency.
If anyone had the clout and recognized authority to curtail the MIC and CIA without ending up assassinated in broad daylight, it was Ike.
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Donald Trump makes all the others look brilliant.
Reagan is, and always has been, number one with me. He is spinning in his grave at light speed over the organization formerly known as the Republican Party turning into an adjunct to KGB Putin.
Bill Clinton looks like a saint next to the professional and personal failings of Donald Trump, so I have to give him props for creating the most jobs out of everyone on the list. No one after him has even come close.
Nor has anyone matched Clinton's GDP growth since then.
Clinton and the Republicans also did a pretty good job of getting the debt and deficits under control. Unfortunately, George Dubya Bush pissed it all away.
Reagan is, and always has been, number one with me. He is spinning in his grave at light speed over the organization formerly known as the Republican Party turning into an adjunct to KGB Putin.
Bill Clinton looks like a saint next to the professional and personal failings of Donald Trump, so I have to give him props for creating the most jobs out of everyone on the list. No one after him has even come close.
Nor has anyone matched Clinton's GDP growth since then.
Clinton and the Republicans also did a pretty good job of getting the debt and deficits under control. Unfortunately, George Dubya Bush pissed it all away.
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Biden.... let's face it he did what republicans have always wanted... the death of the democrat party... so thanks Joe....
g5000
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Wishful thinking.
I remember after Reagan won 49 states, a lot of pundits and fools said the Democratic Party was dead then, too.
Republicans have a habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Ike and Reagan
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22% approval says my wish came true....
g5000
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Yeah, it had nothing to do with Nixon being a crook and being caught on his own tapes.
D33P STAIT! D33P STAIT!
Nixon WAS the Deep State.
Nonetheless, Nixon did create the EPA with bipartisan support. He also opened China to the West.
Most of Trump's cult of personality don't even know these facts.
Imagine that. Republicans created the EPA!
It had something to do with our rivers catching fire every year and being able to see the air you were breathing.
g5000
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You are in for a very sad surprise.
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Like most things, it took dire circumstances to bring change.
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The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969
Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental movement
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But you are sad and mad now and I'm enjoying it....
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Yeah, I just added another sentence about that at the end of my post.Like most things, it took dire circumstances to bring change.
The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969
Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental movement
Today's New Right would like to abolish the EPA and be able to see the air they are breathing and let the oligarchs bury toxins in their back yards again.
They came to this opinion because they are being influenced by those very same oligarchs through their favorite propaganda outlets.
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