Comparative view on U.S. presidents from 1945 to 2007 (approval ratings)

juli 10th, 2007

I found (via stumbleUpon) this comparative view on U.S. presidents since 1945  and up to the midterms in 2007. The article hardly has any text, so the readers can pretty much interpret themselves. Below a detailed look on Ronald Reagan’s approval ratings:

Btw: this is a good interview with Reagan from 1975 (Inside Ronald Reagan (who wan’ts that???) , and this is a very critical review of the diaries (Guardian, june 24- 2007):

If you substituted every instance of the word ‘Soviet’ in The Reagan Diaries with another word such as ‘golf’ and replaced all mentions of ‘General Noriega’ with, say, ‘Bob Hope’, you could be reading the desktop diary of the chief executive of a middle-ranking American company engaged in the manufacture of, I don’t know, sporting goods. Except, actually, it’s hard to believe that Ronald Reagan would have made it as far as chief executive. More likely, he’d be the senior sales rep, the one sent overseas to gladhand the foreign clients and talk up the company; who moans about his workload and counts the days until the weekend when he gets back to his favourite activity - chopping down trees and clearing brushwood in his backyard.

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