PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL POLLS

 

Gallup Poll: Public's Perception of the Presidents (2000)

 

Greatest Worst

Kennedy (22%) Nixon (24%)

Lincoln (18%) Clinton (20%)

Clinton (13%) Carter (10%)

F. Roosevelt (12%) Reagan (8%)

Reagan (11%) G. Bush (3%)

Washington (5%)

G. Bush (3%)

 

Average Presidential Approval Ratings (2000)

 

Kennedy (70%)

Eisenhower (65%)

G. Bush (61%)

L. Johnson (55%)

Clinton (54%)

Reagan (53%)

Nixon (49%)

Ford (47%)

Carter (45%)

 

The Public's Approval of Presidents Today

 

Kennedy (84%)

F. Roosevelt (75%)

Eisenhower (70%)

Truman (68%)

G. Bush (56%)

Ford (55%)

Carter (50%)

Reagan (48%)

L. Johnson (40%)

Nixon (32%)

 

Source: Adam Clymer, "Presidents ask a place in posterity; posterity keeps rearranging them," New York Times, Jan. 24, 1993 , p. E3.