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Article: Clinton Last in 'Moral Authority'
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- February 21, 2000
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ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
02-21-2000
Clinton Last in 'Moral Authority'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton rates near the top for managing the economy and pursuing equal justice, but dead last when measured for ``moral authority,'' according to a ranking of presidents by 58 historians.
Overall among presidents, Clinton comes across in the middle, 21st out of 41 men who have occupied the Oval Office.
Two other presidents marked by scandal -- Richard Nixon and Warren Harding -- came in just above Clinton in the historians' view of moral leadership.
The academics rated Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman as the ...