1. Presidential Greatness Are historians a check on presidents?

2. The Greats

3. The Failures Franklin Pierce Herbert Hoover James Buchanan Richard Nixon Warren Harding Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant

4. What makes a president great?

5. Does a president need a war to be great? WARNO WAR GREAT or NEAR GREAT Lincoln, FDR, Wilson, Truman, Polk Washington, Jefferson, TR NOT GREAT Eisenhower, LBJ, McKinley, Madison, Bush, Nixon John Adams, Kennedy, Cleveland, Monroe, JQ Adams, Clinton, Reagan,

6. “A president resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer and a port to seek.” --Henry Adams

7. A Tale of Three Presidents Abraham Lincoln, 1860-1865 Warren Harding, 1921-1923 Lyndon Johnson, 1963-1969