Today, our advisors to it. How we rank in the president s. We want to people to realize its not a scientific ranking. It is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various president s, and what what briley did or do its not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. President will be judged on Foreign Policymaking or on race relations. Or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. Its broken up into numerous categories. The newborn one ten scale and all those categories. At the end we add them up and there is the list. The key ingredient are the historians and scholars. There are only a few of us on air today. The top biographers, academic historians, journalists have written important biographies are all part of this survey. We really try to get around 150 140 people answering the survey. And we are very proud every four years because of the list. We can all quibble over somebody we think should be ra
Historian author smith by historian author and here in washington d. C. It is professional and that green bedford of Howard University. Thank you and for joining us this morning. Doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. How do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. How do you decide to make that comparison . Cspan is put together a group of all of us on the air today, our advisors to it. How we rank in the president s. We want to people to realize its not a scientific ranking. It is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various president s, and what what briley did or do its not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. President will be judged on Foreign Policymaking or on race relations. Or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. Its broken