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UK Poll of US Presidents

The results of the UK American Presidency Survey have been released.

Rating presidential performance across five categories, 47 UK-based, US specialists ranked Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) first and James Buchanan (1857-1861) 40th. George W. Bush (2001-2009) is in 31st place, putting him in the bottom 10.

The UK Survey of US Presidents was conducted by the United States Presidency Centre of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, and is the first UK scholarly survey of 40 US presidents since George Washington.

An hour after the results went live on the USPC website at 17:00 (GMT) on Monday, Professor Iwan Morgan, USPC director, provided analysis at Senate House.
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