Rank exercises.

David Beito doesn't think much of historians rating presidents:

Rated by the historians in the “worst” category, by contrast, is, you guessed it, Warren G. Harding: a president who successfully promoted economic prosperity, cut taxes, balanced the budget, reduced the national debt, released all of his predecessor’s political prisoners, supported anti-lynching legislation, and instituted the most substantial naval arms reduction agreement in world history. Go figure.

Expecting something useful to come out of such exercises is like expecting objective appraisals of same-sex marriage at an Academy Awards orgy of maudlin self-congratulation.

"In Defense of the (Relatively) Great Warren G. Harding." By David Beito, The Beacon, 2/17/09.