IKE and OTHERS

Dear Mr. Wattenberg,I remember all of the presidents since Truman. Dwight Eisenhower was the best I've seen. He will not go down in popular history as great because he presided over the very necessary unwinding after WWII. He will not get proper credit for being one of the prime factors for victory in that war. Be that as it may he was a giant of the 20th century.Regards,Royp.s., Your book "The Good News is the Bad New is All Wrong" had a profound influence on me. I am eternally grateful. --Posted by Roy Lofquist to Wattenblog at 8/30/2006 07:08:47 PM

Ben's Response:
Roy,
DDE was indeed a giant.
But there have been some other very good ones:
JFK --- he tenure was short. He made mistakes. But his picture was in the huts and villages all over the world.
LBJ, notwithstanding the (neccessary) but poorly executed war in Vietnam.
Reagan. His one sentence "He won the Cold War" (along with the other Presidents, Lech, Pope John 23rd, and millions of taxpayers in the Free World --- even the French!
I like President George W. Bush a great deal. He's got guts...
Roy: where are you from?

Ben