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Crisis Leadership
President's Name
2009
Final Score
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2009
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2009
2000
Abraham Lincoln
97.6
1
1
1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
92.5
2
2
3
George Washington
92.5
3
3
2
Harry S. Truman
83.0
4
4
5
Theodore Roosevelt
80.9
5
5
4
Andrew Jackson
74.9
6
7
13
Dwight D. Eisenhower
73.6
7
10
8
John F. Kennedy
73.3
8
8
6
Woodrow Wilson
73.3
9
6
9
James K. Polk
70.2
10
9
12
George H. W. Bush
69.7
11
11
18
Ronald Reagan
69.4
12
15
10
Thomas Jefferson
66.0
13
12
7
William McKinley
64.0
14
14
16
Bill Clinton
60.5
15
20
15
James Monroe
57.9
16
18
13
John Adams
54.7
17
13
17
Lyndon B. Johnson
54.4
18
17
11
Gerald R. Ford
54.1
19
22
22
Grover Cleveland
52.7
20
16
21
Ulysses S. Grant
50.4
21
30
23
James Madison
49.5
22
19
20
Richard M. Nixon
48.6
23
23
27
John Quincy Adams
47.5
24
21
19
George W. Bush
45.2
25
NA
36
Zachary Taylor
44.1
26
24
29
William Howard Taft
42.5
27
25
24
James A. Garfield
42.2
28
32
28
Chester A. Arthur
41.8
29
29
32
Benjamin Harrison
41.4
30
33
30
Martin Van Buren
40.8
31
34
31
Calvin Coolidge
40.6
32
31
26
Rutherford B. Hayes
38.5
33
26
33
John Tyler
38.3
34
35
35
Jimmy Carter
37.7
35
28
25
Millard Fillmore
37.6
36
27
37
Warren G. Harding
28.2
37
38
38
William Henry Harrison
26.9
38
36
39
Herbert Hoover
26.0
39
39
34
Andrew Johnson
24.9
40
37
41
Franklin D. Pierce
24.5
41
40
40
James Buchanan
16.3
42
41
42
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