Since 1979, as the national political network of record, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) was created by this nation's cable companies as a public service in 1979. C-SPAN programs three public affairs television networks; C-SPAN Radio, a Washington, DC radio station distributed nationally by XM Satellite Radio; and a video-rich website. C-SPAN is currently available in over 92 million cable and satellite households. On Presidents Day 2009, C-SPAN released its second survey of the leadership provided by presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. For this blogger, the saddest result of the survey is that The Dubster was not relegated to his rightful place as a bottom-feeder. He is near the bottom, but not low enough. If this is (fair & balanced) animus, so be it.
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2009 Historian Presidential Leadership Survey
By Douglas Brinkley, Edna G. Medford, and Richard N. Smith
C-SPAN releases the results of its second (since 2000) Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. 65 presidential historians ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership:
Guiding this effort was a team of academic advisors: Douglas Brinkley from Rice University; Edna Greene Medford, from Howard University; and Richard Norton Smith, from George Mason University. ♥
[Douglas Brinkley earned his B.A. from The Ohio State University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1989. Edna G. Medford was educated at Hampton Institute (VA), the University of Illinois (Urbana), and the University of Maryland (College Park), where she received her Ph.D. in history. Richard N. Smith graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1975 with a degree in government.]
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