Presidency

<p>What does history tell us about presidents who have tried to push the limits of the system?</p>

Since 2000, C-SPAN has conducted a survey of historians on presidential leadership each time there has been a change in administrations. For each survey, we bring in a cross-section of presidential historians and ask them to rank the country's former chief executives on the same 10…

The Siena College Research Institute's Survey of U.S. Presidents has been conducted during the second year of the first term of a new president since 1982. Previous SCRI surveys of U.S. Presidents have been reported in Presidential Studies Quarterly, The New York Times, Washington Post, recent…

<p>The disputed election of "His Fraudulency" Rutherford B. Hayes ended the era of Reconstruction.</p>

<p><span class="deck">They’ve all had things to say about their fellow chief executives. Once in a great while, one was even flattering.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization, in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years later, Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Richard Brookhiser has spent four years trying to capture for the television screen the character of one of the greatest Americans.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A recent presidential edict will make it harder for historians to practice their trade.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An interview with the president and his wife in the Oval Office</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why have our presidents almost always stumbled after the first four years?</span></p>

<p>An impetuous and sometimes corrupt Congress has often hamstrung the efforts of the president since the earliest days of the republic.</p>

<p>In his second term, George Washington faced a crisis that threatened to tear apart the young republic. His wife Martha later thought that the bitterness of the debate may have hastened the president’s death, but Washington gave America the gift of peace, and an important precedent in leadership.</p>

<p>After becoming president, George Washington undertook an extraordinary journey through all 13 colonies to unite – and learn from – a diverse population of citizens. His quest to unite the nation and discover the "temper and disposition" of its people are an inspiration to us today.</p>

<p>Built in Dublin in 1778 by a member of the British Parliament who admired George Washington, the vandalized monument stands on an old estate now in ruins.</p>

<p>The struggles and triumphs of our presidents have been central to shaping our nation, even though they operated under a Constitution that didn’t grant them unilateral power.</p>

<p>The young nation was lucky to have the only candidate on Earth who could do the job.</p>

<p>The cause of Donald Trump’s poor behavior may be “a severe case of bad manners,” says the author.</p>

<p>Partisan political differences mushroomed into a battle over the conduct of Barack Obama and other administration officials.</p>

<p>Here is probably the most wide-ranging look at presidential misbehavior ever published in a magazine.</p>

<p>What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it is meant to discredit President Trump’s supporters and perhaps stop him from running for president again.</p>

<p>Trump is the most transformative one-term President in 175 years, but historians will not be kind.</p>