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Performance Within Context of Times

President's Name	2017 Final Scores	Category Rankings			2017 Overall Rankings
President's Name	2017 Final Scores	2017	2009	2000	2017 Overall Rankings
George Washington	97.7	1	2	2	2
Abraham Lincoln	97.1	2	1	1	1
Franklin D. Roosevelt	92.3	3	3	3	3
Theodore Roosevelt	85.4	4	4	4	4
Harry S. Truman	80.7	5	5	5	6
Thomas Jefferson	78.6	6	6	6	7
Dwight D. Eisenhower	77.2	7	8	9	5
Ronald Reagan	74.1	8	7	12	9
John F. Kennedy	72.5	9	11	11	8
Woodrow Wilson	71.1	10	10	7	11
James Monroe	69.9	11	13	16	13
James K. Polk	68.6	12	12	10	14
Andrew Jackson	68.1	13	9	8	18
Lyndon B. Johnson	68.0	14	14	13	10
Barack Obama	67.5	15	NA	NA	12
James Madison	66.4	16	18	18	17
William J. Clinton	65.9	17	16	21	15
William McKinley	65.4	18	15	14	16
John Adams	64.6	19	17	15	19
George H. W. Bush	62.0	20	19	20	20
Ulysses S. Grant	58.0	21	25	33	22
John Quincy Adams	57.6	22	22	19	21
Grover Cleveland	56.7	23	20	17	23
William Howard Taft	54.6	24	23	23	24
Gerald R. Ford	53.8	25	21	22	25
Calvin Coolidge	51.0	26	24	27	27
James A. Garfield	47.3	27	31	30	29
Rutherford B. Hayes	47.0	28	32	25	32
Jimmy Carter	46.9	29	28	24	26
Zachary Taylor	46.5	30	26	28	31
Benjamin Harrison	46.2	31	29	29	30
Chester A. Arthur	45.9	32	27	26	35
Martin Van Buren	44.5	33	30	31	34
Richard M. Nixon	44.0	34	33	32	28
George W. Bush	43.3	35	36	NA	33
John Tyler	38.9	36	34	35	39
Millard Fillmore	38.4	37	35	34	37
William Henry Harrison	37.1	38	39	38	38
Herbert Hoover	36.6	39	37	36	36
Warren G. Harding	33.2	40	38	37	40
Franklin Pierce	28.8	41	40	40	41
Andrew Johnson	26.3	42	41	39	42
James Buchanan	20.4	43	42	41	43

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