I think he stopped being considered that after Harding’s term.
I’ve seen lists with Harding at the bottom, but usually it’s Buchanan. Unless it’s Grant.
Hard to think Grant would rate that low. Grant personally. He had some dreadful people under him but was much beloved by the public.
Reminds me of the old saw:
The two happiest days in the life of a boat owner are the day he buys it and the day he sells it."
Some cynics feel similarly about marriage.
Appreciation of Grant has been increasing over the past couple of decades, I think because historians are paying more attention to his Reconstruction efforts and less to the corruption aspects of underlings.
For example, in this C-Span ranking, he’s improved from 33 in 2003 to 22 in 2017. That’s a major change for a president who served over a century ago. It’s normally the more recent presidents who flip around until greater historical perspective develops.
Checked the others in the C-Span survey. That nine point improvement for Grant is the single biggest shift for any president over the two decades of that particular survey.
Truman got a similar re-appreciation, as historians who lived through the Truman years died off and new historians, who didn’t have personal memories or perspectives, re-examined Truman’s record more neutrally. I think Eisenhower has slipped proportionately. Truman’s initial poor rankings were because he came between FDR and Eisenhower, who both had major roles in WWII that influenced contemporary assessments.
The only thing I credit Eisenhower as president with is he did try to warn the nation about the dangers of the military-industrial complex. Oh, and he did oversee the Interstate Highway System…
But man, he should’ve Patton-slapped Joseph McCarthy.
Eisenhower should get credit for his actions in the Little Rock Nine case as well, calling in the military to ensure their safety after Gov Faubus tried to keep them out. You can argue he didn’t act quickly enough, and you might be right, and you can argue that he should have done more in general for civil rights, and you might be right about that too (of course you can say that about FDR, Truman, and Kennedy as well), but this was a very good move.
You’re right about McCarthy!
Wilson was one of the very worst, he was a racist piece of shit, who got us into a stupid war. The USA, by selling food and munitions to GB, extended the suffering of the Great War. Wilsons racism extended the Jim Crow laws and set back racial equality by decades.
A greater President would have brokered peace. Not doing so caused WW2 and the Holocaust.
https://news.yahoo.com/historian-told-us-why-woodrow-153000933.html
Wilson is currently ranked 11th on that C-Span survey. My guess is that he’s going to start slipping.
There have been three major biographies of Grant published in the last few years: The Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands (2013), American Ulysses by Ronald White (2016), and Grant by Ron Chernow (2018). So it’s not surprising to see opinions about Grant being revised.
Eisenhower also desegregated the army. Like most people in their time he didn’t do enough but he did move us forward.
Truman.
President Truman desegregated the U.S. military, including the Army, in 1948. At the time, Eisenhower was president of Columbia University.
ETA: ninja’d
Truman ordered the desegreation in 1948. Eisenhower was responsible for fully implementing it after he was elected.
Huh, I didn’t realize the Truman started it. Wiki does note that Eisenhower implemented most of it so I’ll still give him some credit. 
Piper shakes fist at Running Coach: Dang you and your superior wiki-search skills!
If Trump were going to declare martial law he would have done it months ago:
“…Trump was criticized, especially by Democrats, for failing to assert the draconian powers he had, such as commandeering the means of industrial production under the Defense Production Act of 1950, invoked by Truman to force industry to produce materials needed for the Korean War. In March, The Washington Post reported that “Governors, Democrats in Congress and some Senate Republicans have been urging Trump for at least a week to invoke the act, and his potential 2020 opponent, Joe Biden, came out in favor of it, too,” yet “Trump [gave] a variety of reasons for not doing so.” Rejecting demands to exploit a public health pandemic to assert extraordinary powers is not exactly what one expects from a striving dictator.”
Quote from a far right-wing blogger. Disappointing, but not unexpected.
Who was it that said “When fascism comes to America it’ll be wrapped in the Flag and carrying the Cross”?
I’m a little worried he’ll do something like ordering unilateral airstrikes on Iran (ostensively b/c of their nuclear program) to leave the resulting mess on Biden’s hands.