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Vision / Setting an Agenda

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	93.1	2	2	3	3	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	92.0	3	3	2	2	3
Theodore Roosevelt	86.9	4	4	5	4	4
Ronald Reagan	84.0	5	6	7	8	9
Thomas Jefferson	83.8	6	5	6	6	7
John F. Kennedy	80.0	7	9	8	9	8
Lyndon B. Johnson	78.1	8	8	11	11	11
Woodrow Wilson	75.5	9	7	4	5	13
Andrew Jackson	74.1	10	10	9	12	22
James K. Polk	72.8	11	11	10	10	18
Barack Obama	71.5	12	12	NA	NA	10
Harry S. Truman	69.8	13	13	12	7	6
James Monroe	68.6	14	14	14	14	12
James Madison	66.4	15	18	18	15	16
Dwight D. Eisenhower	64.8	16	16	16	18	5
John Quincy Adams	62.5	17	15	17	13	17
William McKinley	62.3	18	17	13	17	14
William J. Clinton	60.2	19	19	15	22	19
John Adams	59.2	20	20	20	19	15
Ulysses S. Grant	58.1	21	23	22	36	20
Grover Cleveland	52.2	22	21	19	16	25
Richard M. Nixon	50.9	23	24	23	21	31
Jimmy Carter	50.5	24	22	21	20	26
George W. Bush	50.5	25	26	25	NA	29
William Howard Taft	49.4	26	28	31	26	23
Calvin Coolidge	48.5	27	29	27	33	24
George H. W. Bush	48.0	28	27	34	28	21
James A. Garfield	47.8	29	25	29	24	27
Martin Van Buren	45.6	30	33	28	27	34
Chester A. Arthur	44.6	31	34	33	29	30
Zachary Taylor	44.1	32	30	24	25	35
Rutherford B. Hayes	43.2	33	32	30	23	33
Benjamin Harrison	43.1	34	31	26	30	32
Gerald R. Ford	40.8	35	35	36	31	28
Donald J. Trump	39.6	36	NA	NA	NA	41
William Henry Harrison	37.6	37	36	32	35	40
Warren G. Harding	37.3	38	40	39	38	37
Herbert Hoover	37.0	39	38	38	37	36
John Tyler	35.9	40	37	35	34	39
Millard Fillmore	34.5	41	39	37	32	38
Franklin Pierce	27.3	42	41	40	40	42
Andrew Johnson	21.7	43	42	41	39	43
James Buchanan	19.1	44	43	42	41	44

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