Why does everyone say JFK was the best president?

"Everyone" doesn't. Surveys of notable scholars tend to place him somewhere between sixth and sixteenth best president. Not the worst, but certainly not the best. read more

Everyone doesn’t say JFK was the best president. In fact when historians are polled he ususally doesn’t even make the top 10. Few Americans who know anything about history believe he was the best president. read more

Fifty years ago Friday, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. The assassination was a tragedy -- and it turned the target into something of a secular political saint. There are few modern presidents about whom The Post's own George Will and E.J. Dionne can agree, but JFK appears to be one. read more