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Vision / Setting an Agenda

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	97.6	1	1	1	1
George Washington	93.2	2	3	3	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	92.7	3	2	2	3
Theodore Roosevelt	87.6	4	5	4	4
Thomas Jefferson	87.2	5	6	6	7
Ronald Reagan	84.9	6	7	8	9
Woodrow Wilson	83.0	7	4	5	11
Lyndon B. Johnson	81.7	8	11	11	10
John F. Kennedy	80.9	9	8	9	8
Andrew Jackson	79.0	10	9	12	18
James K. Polk	76.6	11	10	10	14
Barack Obama	73.3	12	NA	NA	12
Harry S. Truman	73.0	13	12	7	6
James Monroe	65.6	14	14	14	13
John Quincy Adams	65.5	15	17	13	21
Dwight D. Eisenhower	64.1	16	16	18	5
William McKinley	63.5	17	13	17	16
James Madison	63.4	18	18	15	17
William J. Clinton	63.1	19	15	22	15
John Adams	57.8	20	20	19	19
Grover Cleveland	55.6	21	19	16	23
Jimmy Carter	50.8	22	21	20	26
Ulysses S. Grant	50.7	23	23	36	22
Richard M. Nixon	50.2	24	22	21	28
James A. Garfield	47.0	25	29	24	29
George W. Bush	46.3	26	25	NA	33
George H. W. Bush	46.1	27	34	28	20
William Howard Taft	45.9	28	31	26	24
Calvin Coolidge	44.9	29	27	33	27
Zachary Taylor	44.1	30	24	25	31
Benjamin Harrison	43.5	31	26	30	30
Rutherford B. Hayes	42.5	32	30	23	32
Martin Van Buren	41.8	33	28	27	34
Chester A. Arthur	41.8	34	33	29	35
Gerald R. Ford	41.5	35	36	31	25
William Henry Harrison	40.4	36	32	35	38
John Tyler	37.5	37	35	34	39
Herbert Hoover	37.1	38	38	37	36
Millard Fillmore	37.1	39	37	32	37
Warren G. Harding	32.8	40	39	38	40
Franklin Pierce	27.5	41	40	40	41
Andrew Johnson	26.2	42	41	39	42
James Buchanan	19.7	43	42	41	43

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