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What is the litmus test for presidents throughout history? What do we measure them on? How do we know how history will remember them? I am sure FDR for all he did had some people against him.
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Don_Dickle lemmy.world Patnou@lemmy.world
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PugJesus Moderator PugJesus@piefed.social
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There's always some political-ideological biases involved, but US historians regularly review presidents on a variety of factors and there's generally consensus on most major figures, at least in broad terms.

That being said, there's not much to be done in many cases except wait - more recent presidents often have results colored by the political leanings of events the historians themselves lived through.
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