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Welcome back to another presidential blog here on Stuff That Happened; a couple videos back, I ranked my Worst 5 Presidents of all time and that video got a lot of activity and lots of you asked me to do my Top 5 U.S. Presidents of all time, and today that request will be granted. I have done my own personal rankings before and they do evolve some over time, but as of today, after some hard consideration, I have come up with my top 5. Let me know your top 5 in the comment section down below, but like I did for my 5 worst, I'll give 3 quick honorable mentions who I considered, but they missed the cut. These mentions are in no particular order. Honorable Mentions John F. Kennedy I lot of people expected JFK to be on my most overrated video, but that wasn't going to happen because I rank JFK quite high, although I couldn't quite put him in the top 5, mainly because he served as President less than 3 years before he was assassinated, causing him to fail to accomplish some of...

Welcome back to another presidential blog on Stuff That Happened and today I'll be ranking my 5 most OVER-RATED presidents in United States history. To determine who is overrated, I'm looking at some of the famous historical surveys and on Wikipedia, we can see Presidents with more blue and green indicate a more favorable ranking. I looked through every President with a favorable ranking on most surveys, and picked out the 5 most overrated in my opinion and today we'll talk about why I feel they're overrated while also looking back at their performance as President and attempting to answer why they are looked at so favorably. Keep in mind, I'm not saying these Presidents were necessarily awful or among the worst; in fact, none of them made my Worst 5 of All Time list, although one was a dishonorable mention. But they are all, in my opinion anyway, over-rated. William McKinley 5. William McKinley McKinley is consistently ranked in the upper half of Presidential ranki...