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Crisis Leadership

President's Name	2017 Final Scores	Category Rankings			2017 Overall Rankings
President's Name	2017 Final Scores	2017	2009	2000	2017 Overall Rankings
Abraham Lincoln	97.8	1	1	1	1
George Washington	94.1	2	3	3	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	94.1	3	2	2	3
Harry S. Truman	85.1	4	4	4	6
Theodore Roosevelt	83.5	5	5	5	4
Dwight D. Eisenhower	82.3	6	7	10	5
John F. Kennedy	79.4	7	8	8	8
Ronald Reagan	74.1	8	12	15	9
James K. Polk	73.8	9	10	9	14
Andrew Jackson	73.5	10	6	7	18
Woodrow Wilson	73.4	11	9	6	11
George H. W. Bush	72.7	12	11	11	20
Thomas Jefferson	72.4	13	13	12	7
James Monroe	66.1	14	16	18	13
Barack Obama	65.4	15	NA	NA	12
William McKinley	64.8	16	14	14	16
John Adams	62.8	17	17	13	19
William J. Clinton	61.5	18	15	20	15
James Madison	60.4	19	22	19	17
Lyndon B. Johnson	59.7	20	18	17	10
Ulysses S. Grant	58.7	21	21	30	22
Grover Cleveland	54.7	22	20	16	23
John Quincy Adams	54.1	23	24	21	21
Gerald R. Ford	53.6	24	19	22	25
George W. Bush	52.3	25	25	NA	33
William Howard Taft	49.9	26	27	25	24
Richard M. Nixon	49.1	27	23	23	28
Zachary Taylor	47.6	28	26	24	31
Calvin Coolidge	46.8	29	32	31	27
Rutherford B. Hayes	45.7	30	33	26	32
James A. Garfield	44.1	31	28	32	29
Chester A. Arthur	42.8	32	29	29	35
Benjamin Harrison	42.5	33	30	33	30
Millard Fillmore	42.4	34	36	27	37
Martin Van Buren	41.1	35	31	34	34
John Tyler	40.1	36	34	35	39
James Earl Carter Jr.	40.0	37	35	28	26
William Henry Harrison	32.7	38	38	36	38
Warren G. Harding	32.1	39	37	38	40
Herbert Hoover	29.7	40	39	39	36
Franklin Pierce	26.9	41	41	40	41
Andrew Johnson	25.3	42	40	37	42
James Buchanan	17.4	43	42	41	43

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