ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, February 9, 1997               TAG: 9702100105
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-8  EDITION: METRO 

ONLY 3 PRESIDENTS ACHIEVED `GREATNESS'

Presidents listed chronologically within categories; William Harrison and Garfield excluded because neither served for long.

GREAT: Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt.

NEAR GREAT: Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Truman.

AVERAGE (HIGH): John Adams, Monroe, Cleveland, McKinley, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson.

AVERAGE (LOW): Madison, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Hayes, Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, Taft, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton.

BELOW AVERAGE: Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, Coolidge.

FAILURE: Pierce, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Harding, Hoover, Nixon.

- Associated Press

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