Some recent letters to the editor make claims about the quality of some recent presidents ( “Nothing noble about Biden’s belated decision,” Aug. 7). Even former President Donald Trump has an opinion, calling Joe Biden the worst president in our history. But what do the experts, presidential historians and scholars, have to say about the subject?

In February, the University of Houston released the results of its third survey over the last decade known as the Presidential Greatness Project . Some 171 scholars whose work involves studying U.S. presidential history, participated. The results were interesting.

First, the country’s greatest president was Abraham Lincoln, followed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George Washington. What was really interesting was the survey ratings for 21st

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