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Relations with Congress

President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
George Washington	83.5	1	2	4	3	2
Lyndon B. Johnson	80.7	2	1	2	1	11
Franklin D. Roosevelt	80.5	3	3	1	2	3
Abraham Lincoln	78.9	4	4	3	4	1
Thomas Jefferson	73.0	5	5	5	5	7
Dwight D. Eisenhower	72.4	6	6	7	7	5
Theodore Roosevelt	71.6	7	7	6	6	4
Ronald Reagan	68.4	8	8	8	8	9
James Monroe	66.9	9	9	9	10	12
William McKinley	65.2	10	10	10	9	14
John F. Kennedy	62.0	11	12	12	13	8
James Madison	60.9	12	13	15	17	16
James K. Polk	60.7	13	11	11	11	18
Harry S. Truman	59.6	14	14	16	15	6
Calvin Coolidge	57.4	15	18	18	19	24
Ulysses S. Grant	56.7	16	20	21	31	20
George H. W. Bush	55.1	17	15	20	20	21
Woodrow Wilson	55.0	18	16	17	14	13
Gerald R. Ford	54.6	19	19	13	12	28
William Howard Taft	54.6	20	23	23	28	23
George W. Bush	54.1	21	25	36	NA	29
John Adams	52.9	22	24	28	22	15
William J. Clinton	52.2	23	17	19	36	19
Andrew Jackson	51.9	24	21	14	16	22
Grover Cleveland	51.6	25	22	27	18	25
James A. Garfield	51.1	26	27	22	23	27
Chester A. Arthur	50.7	27	29	25	27	30
Martin Van Buren	49.4	28	28	24	25	34
John Quincy Adams	49.0	29	32	31	35	17
Benjamin Harrison	48.8	30	26	26	24	32
Rutherford B. Hayes	48.5	31	30	35	21	33
Barack Obama	46.9	32	39	NA	NA	10
Warren G. Harding	45.4	33	34	34	26	37
Jimmy Carter	44.9	34	33	32	33	26
Millard Fillmore	43.9	35	36	33	29	38
Herbert Hoover	43.9	36	31	30	34	36
Zachary Taylor	43.8	37	35	29	32	35
Richard M. Nixon	40.0	38	37	37	30	31
Franklin Pierce	37.0	39	40	39	37	42
William Henry Harrison	36.2	40	38	38	39	40
John Tyler	30.5	41	41	40	38	39
Donald J. Trump	28.6	42	NA	NA	NA	41
James Buchanan	25.6	43	42	41	40	44
Andrew Johnson	15.2	44	43	42	41	43

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