I think in Ireland Clinton would be the most popular since 1964. I’m not that old but so can’t say for definite one of his predecessors wasn’t more popular. There were anti-nuclear demos here when Reagan visited in 1984 or 1985. Clinton is seeing as having helped broker the peace in Northern Ireland that more or less has remained in place for the last decade.
I’m gonna say, FWIW, that I don’t think you made such a fool of yourself, Zuma. I’m pretty sure that Clinton is the most popular US president in most of Western Europe, at least in Holland, which is where i’m from.
Most popular president overseas. I like it when Bush is overseas.
I’d rather have him underseas. Can’t we stick him in a submarine or something until January '09?
Here in Cameroon, it’s Clinton by a longshot. Hell, Clinton might be one of the most popular Americans in general. Probably at least every other day I hear someone talking about how great Clinton is and how we need a president more like him. And most people arn’t even aware of the work that he’s done towards increasing access to anti-retrovirals- something that my whole community now benefits from.
teddy roosevelt was pretty popular in the Philippines. Only cite I have is that when I worked for Lehman Brothers, Teddy roosevelt the Third (or fourth) spent a few weeks every year as a consultant. Well, not really. Teddy was a professional handshaker. His job was to go meet clients, pretend to be interested in anything they were saying, and take photos. He was really a professional at it. I mean, he was a nice guy, and this was the way he picked up, I dunno a half million dollars a year for a couple weeks work.
there were others in similar roles who were real pricks. Ted was a nice guy, did his best to do his job well and treat the little people like they might actually influence him getting rehired the next year.
Violating the OP’s date criteria, in Spain it’s JFK, followed by Lincoln.
Carter has been more popular post-residency than during.
Clinton was well-liked but I don’t know what got us more tired, his problem keeping it inside his pants or the ridiculous amount of fuss made over whether he could or could not keep it inside his pants. And many women liked her better than him.
Reagan, for many people he never stopped being a bad actor from a lot of westerns.
Bush I has been made to look good by Bush II, but during his presidency he wasn’t particularly well-liked or particularly disliked.
With the exceptions of Lincoln and JFK, the perceptions of many Spaniards with respect to the American President tend to have more to do with him being the president of the US than with any actual knowledge of the guy or his policies. And the knowledge 99.999% of Spaniards have of the mechanisms of US politics is cringe-worthily limited. We know it’s legal to have lobbies (in Spain it’s illegal), we have some very confused perceptions about what can a jury do and not do (many people feel relieved when this comes up in conversation and I explain that it changes by jurisdiction), but… what are the steps to create a law, or to take one from the books? What is decided by State “parliaments”, what by Congress, what by the Senate, what by Minister-level folks (often but not always called Secretaries), and what by the President? We barely know that about our own system and have no idea how it works in the US. I’ve met people who thought every single thing was done by the Prez… move over, Louis XIV!