Late last year, in anticipation of Presidents Day, C-SPAN compiled its 17th annual poll of American historians to determine a ranking of our country’s 44 previous presidents.
Historians rated presidents in ten categories, including “public persuasion,” “crisis leadership,” and “moral authority.”
There’s no category in the presidential ranking system for media relations, which is good for Trump, as he’s essentially waged war on the whole concept of freedom of the press. In one recent tweet, Trump said the media was “the enemy of the American People!”
At which point, Trump cut him off—basically telling him to shut up and sit down.
The C-SPAN poll doesn’t rank presidents based on their anti-Semitism, but President Richard Nixon also had issues with Jews. Basically, Nixon thought they were part of a massive conspiracy—which supposedly also included the Kennedy family and other east-coast elites—to bring him down.
Now everyone wants to know the answer to an updated version of a Nixon-era question in regards to Flynn’s conversations with the Russians: What did the president know and when did he know it?. (CNN and others reported that Trump knew that Flynn had allegedly misled people in his administration two weeks before Flynn resigned.)
Haldeman: Maybe he’s tied to the Kennedy set.
Nixon: Is he Catholic?
Haldeman: I don’t know.
Nixon: Find out.
Haldeman: I think he’s Jewish.
Nixon: Christ! Mark Felt is certainly a Jewish name. Well, that could explain it too.
