Historians like to create lists. Which presidents were best? Which were worst? So on, and so forth.<\/p>\n
My brother called. He mentioned that a television station was showing Dave<\/i>, that wonderful film about a man called upon to impersonate the president when he suffered a stroke, and his transformation from the tool of the imperious chief of staff into a leader of his own.<\/p>\n
This reminded me that several years ago Atlantic Monthly<\/i> ran an article wherein famous presidential historians ranked fictional presidents as they would have ranked real presidents.<\/p>\n
“Ranking the Movie Presidents<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Damn, my google-fu powers are good. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Dave Kovic ranks as a failure, largely because of the extra-Constitutional manner in which he assumed office. But that’s to be expected; presidential historians aren’t known for their senses of humor — or their love of Kapra-esque fairy tales.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, it’s a fun little article. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Historians like to create lists. Which presidents were best? Which were worst? So on, and so forth. My brother called. He mentioned that a television station was showing Dave, that wonderful film about a man called upon to impersonate the president when he suffered a stroke, and his transformation from the tool of the imperiousContinue reading “On Rating the Fictional Presidents”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[400,4110],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-constitution","tag-history","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}