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The 10 Worst Presidents

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Barack Obama George W. Bush Bill Clinton George H.W. Bush Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford Richard Nixon Lyndon B. Johnson John F. Kennedy Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover Calvin Coolidge

Warren G. Harding Woodrow Wilson William Howard Taft Theodore Roosevelt William McKinley Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland Chester A. Arthur James A. Garfield Rutherford B. Hayes Ulysses S. Grant Andrew Johnson Abraham Lincoln James Buchanan

Franklin Pierce Millard Fillmore Zachary Taylor James K. Polk John Tyler William Henry Harrison Martin Van Buren Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams James Monroe James Madison Thomas Jefferson John Adams George Washington

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