Bush The Elder's Presidency Is Undervalued

Bush The Elder's Presidency Is Undervalued
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AMC - Former President George H.W. Bush, right, actress Heather Lind, left, and actor Seth Numrich, center, attend a private screening of AMC's new series TURN on Saturday, March, 29, 2014 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Invision for AMC/AP Images)
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AMC - Former President George H.W. Bush, right, actress Heather Lind, left, and actor Seth Numrich, center, attend a private screening of AMC's new series TURN on Saturday, March, 29, 2014 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Invision for AMC/AP Images)

“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” Barack Obama said, well before his 2012 re-election. Most historians do not seem to believe that a really good president can be a one-termer. Two-thirds of presidents have not been re-elected (generally due to death or defeat), but in most academic rankings James Polk is the lone single-termer to crack the Top 10.

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