• Historians always seem to agree that Abraham Lincoln was the best US President.
  • As part of C-SPAN’s third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents.
  • The rankings are based on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with congress, vision, pursued equal justice for all, and performance within the context of his times.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This video was originally published on February 28, 2017.