PRESIDENTS AND BODY COUNTS | 2007-04-26
It is generally agreed that Lincoln was the greatest president. During his term of office, more Americans were killed than in all of America's other wars combined.
The second greatest is generally conceded to be George Washington. He had an unfortunately almost bloodless eight years as president, but he was the leader when the greatest slaughter in our history occurred before Lincoln took the lead.
Frankling Roosevelt is in the top three. His administration saw the greatest number of American deaths since Lincoln's championship record, as yet unbroken.
Wilson is termed one of the great presidents, but by the time he kept America out of war to get reelected in 1916, he got us into World War I too late to build up a serious body count, though he WAS a distant third.
Reagan won his war without firing a shot. So he was not a great president.