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KENGOR TAKES PART IN C-SPAN PRESIDENTIAL SURVEY |
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February 16, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Dr. Paul Kengor, executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College and professor of political science, is among 65 presidential scholars surveyed by C-SPAN for its Presidents’ Day 2009 ranking of American presidents, the first major C-SPAN rating since 2000.
The survey ranks 10 leadership attributes for each of the 42 men who have been president. The top 10 are: Abraham Lincoln, an honor coinciding with the bicentennial of his birth; George Washington; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt; Harry Truman; John F. Kennedy; Thomas Jefferson; Dwight Eisenhower; Woodrow Wilson; and Ronald Reagan.
“It was an honor and thrill to be asked to participate,” Kengor said. “I respect C-SPAN very much. I knew that when C-SPAN decided to do this it would be done with C-SPAN’s characteristic, unequalled political fairness.”
Survey responses were calculated by averaging all responses in a given category for each president; participants scored each on a scale of one to 10, one being “not effective” and 10 “very effective.” The categories were: public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with Congress, vision/setting an agenda, pursued equal justice for all and performance within the context of his times. Each of the 10 categories was given equal weighting in the total scores.
The historians were selected from a database of C-SPAN’s programming and augmented by suggestions from the academic advisers: Dr. Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University; Dr. Edna Greene Medford, associate professor of history at Howard University; and Richard Norton Smith, scholar in residence at George Mason University.
For a full list of rankings, log on to www.c-span.org/presidentialsurvey.
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