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Crisis Leadership

President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
Abraham Lincoln	96.4	1	1	1	1	1
George Washington	91.9	2	2	2	3	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	91.6	3	3	3	2	3
Theodore Roosevelt	80.8	4	5	5	5	4
Harry S. Truman	80.1	5	4	4	4	6
Dwight D. Eisenhower	77.3	6	6	7	10	5
John F. Kennedy	73.9	7	7	9	8	8
Thomas Jefferson	70.2	8	13	13	12	7
Ronald Reagan	69.0	9	8	12	15	9
George H. W. Bush	68.9	10	12	11	11	21
Woodrow Wilson	67.1	11	11	8	6	13
James K. Polk	66.7	12	9	10	9	18
Andrew Jackson	66.5	13	10	6	7	22
James Monroe	64.9	14	14	16	18	12
William McKinley	63.4	15	16	14	14	14
Ulysses S. Grant	63.2	16	21	21	30	20
Barack Obama	62.8	17	15	NA	NA	10
John Adams	62.2	18	17	17	13	15
James Madison	60.4	19	19	22	19	16
William J. Clinton	57.7	20	18	15	20	19
Lyndon B. Johnson	57.5	21	20	18	17	11
George W. Bush	54.6	22	25	25	NA	29
John Quincy Adams	54.0	23	23	24	21	17
Grover Cleveland	51.8	24	22	20	16	25
Gerald R. Ford	50.1	25	24	19	22	28
William Howard Taft	50.0	26	26	27	25	23
Calvin Coolidge	49.1	27	29	32	31	24
Richard M. Nixon	48.3	28	27	23	23	31
Zachary Taylor	47.4	29	28	26	24	35
James A. Garfield	46.4	30	31	28	32	27
Chester A. Arthur	45.1	31	32	29	29	30
Benjamin Harrison	43.4	32	33	30	33	32
Rutherford B. Hayes	43.0	33	30	33	26	33
Martin Van Buren	41.1	34	35	31	34	34
Jimmy Carter	39.5	35	37	35	28	26
John Tyler	38.6	36	36	34	35	39
Millard Fillmore	37.9	37	34	36	27	38
Warren G. Harding	32.8	38	39	37	38	37
William Henry Harrison	31.9	39	38	38	36	40
Herbert Hoover	26.6	40	40	39	39	36
Donald J. Trump	26.5	41	NA	NA	NA	41
Franklin Pierce	25.0	42	41	41	40	42
Andrew Johnson	19.8	43	42	40	37	43
James Buchanan	16.1	44	43	42	41	44

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