Ranking the U.S. Presidents

Every four years, C-Span assembles professors and historical scholars to rank the U.S. Presidents - the latest results from the 2021 survey were:

​1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
​4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. Harry S. Truman
​7. Thomas Jefferson
8. John F. Kennedy
9. Ronald Reagan
​10. Barack Obama
11. Lyndon B. Johnson
12. James Monroe
​13. Woodrow Wilson
14. William McKinley
15. John Adams
​16. James Madison
17. John Quincy Adams
18. James K. Polk
​19. William J. Clinton
20. Ulysses S. Grant
21. George H.W. Bush
​22. Andrew Jackson
23. William Howard Taft
24. Calvin Coolidge 
​25. Jimmy Carter
26. James A. Garfield
27. Gerald R. Ford
​28. George W. Bush
29. Chester A. Arthur
30. Richard M. Nixon
​31. Benjamin Harrison
32. Rutherford B. Hayes
​33. Martin Van Buren
34. Zachary Taylor
​35. Herbert Hoover (love his vacuums!  :-) 
36. Warren G. Harding
​37. Millard Fillmore 
38. John Tyler
​39. William Henry Harrison
40. Donald J. Trump
41. Franklin Pierce
42. Andrew Johnson
​43. James Buchanan.

I wonder where they will rank Joe Biden?  My guess is that he will be somewhere in between #15-20 initially and whether he goes up or down from there will depend.  I believe that history will rank Trump lower than his current #40 position, but never below Andrew Johnson or James Buchanan.  Also interesting that MTG tried to vilify Joe Biden the other day saying that he was trying to finish what the despicable presidents FDR (#3) and LBJ (#11) started, not bad company, but I'm guessing she is not a historical scholar...

If I'm right about Biden, and time will tell, the best Presidents in my lifetime will be:

​1. Ronald Reagan
2. Barack Obama
3. Lyndon B. Johnson
​4. William J. Clinton
5. Joe R. Biden
6. George H. W. Bush
7. Jimmy Carter
​8. Gerald R. Ford
9. Richard M. Nixon
10. George W. Bush
​11. Donald J. Trump

My modern U.S. Presidential list would be slightly different, though I agree with most of the bottom half: 

1. Lyndon B. Johnson
2. Barack Obama
3. William J. Clinton
4. Ronald Reagan
5. Jimmy Carter

My Top 5 Ever Are:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. Lyndon B. Johnson
​5. Thomas Jefferson