Mirror mirror on the wall
Who was the greatest president of them all?
A 1956 Gallup poll asked, “What THREE United States Presidents do you regard as the GREATEST?”
The pollsters planned to contact a sample of approximately 1,800 respondents. It never really got off the ground.
The report was incomplete and remained unpublished until Stanford University historian Thomas A. Bailey uncovered the results in his 1966 study, Pre…
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