Commentary
One Presidents’ Day tradition is the publication of surveys of various scholars and historians asking them to rank the presidents. Those polls tend to not be very illuminating; all they do is reflect the ideologies of the scholars—progressives favor progressive presidents, conservatives and libertarians favor presidents who pursued conservative or libertarian policies, and so forth.
Today, when knowledge of our country’s history seems to have faded away and a majority of Americans know very little about the 45 men who have been President of the United States, let’s look at some vignettes about some of those men. Maybe that will spark some curiosity and prompt a few readers to learn more about these men and their times….