Greatest Ex-President

richlevy · 02-17-2004, 11:54 AM

I was reading over the posts in the Clinton Brings It thread and began to think about ex-Presidents. So I did a search for 'ex-President' and found a nice article about Carter entitled America's Greatest Ex-President?.

So lets say you are elected in your 40's or 50's, and serve 4 to 8 years (sounds like a prison sentence) in the Oval Office. The stress of the job probably ages you twice that. At the end of it you have a nice retirement package and bodyguards for the rest of your life. What you do with it is completely up to you.

Some ex-presidents stay in politics, some supplement their income on the lecture circuit. Some, like Carter, see themselves as ambassadors, domestically and internationally.

So I'll open up the floor. Of the presidents of the 20th century who left office, who was the best ex-president.

I had to leave off three candidates since the limit was 10.
LBJ
Nixon
Reagan

Reagan was ill leaving office. Nixon was disgraced and I don't recall him doing much. LBJ I would have liked to keep on if there was room.

View Poll Results: Best 2-th Century Ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt	2	11.11%
William Howard Taft	0	0%
Woodrow Wilson	0	0%
Calvin Coolidge	2	11.11%
Herbert Clark Hoover	0	0%
Harry S. Truman	1	5.56%
Dwight David Eisenhower	1	5.56%
Gerald Rudolph Ford	2	11.11%
James Earl Carter, Jr.	8	44.44%
William Jefferson Clinton	2	11.11%
Voters: 18. You may not vote on this poll

02-17-2004, 11:54 AM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Greatest Ex-President I was reading over the posts in the Clinton Brings It thread and began to think about ex-Presidents. So I did a search for 'ex-President' and found a nice article about Carter entitled America's Greatest Ex-President?. So lets say you are elected in your 40's or 50's, and serve 4 to 8 years (sounds like a prison sentence) in the Oval Office. The stress of the job probably ages you twice that. At the end of it you have a nice retirement package and bodyguards for the rest of your life. What you do with it is completely up to you. Some ex-presidents stay in politics, some supplement their income on the lecture circuit. Some, like Carter, see themselves as ambassadors, domestically and internationally. So I'll open up the floor. Of the presidents of the 20th century who left office, who was the best ex-president. I had to leave off three candidates since the limit was 10. LBJ Nixon Reagan Reagan was ill leaving office. Nixon was disgraced and I don't recall him doing much. LBJ I would have liked to keep on if there was room. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama Last edited by richlevy; 02-17-2004 at 12:01 PM.

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