What makes a president a good (or bad) leader?
As Americans celebrates the country's founding, we examine the presidency. We offer insight from C-SPAN's Presidential Historians Survey. As Americans celebrates the country's founding, we examine the presidency. We offer insight from C-SPAN's Presidential Historians Survey. Its almost the Fourth of Julyweekend in the United States, which inspires reflection about the nations founding and the evolution of its highest office  the American presidency. It turns out, that the team at C-SPAN also ponders questions like this. And theyve asked 142 historians and presidential experts to help answer those questions. On Wednesday, C-SPAN released its fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. The survey asks experts to rank the countrys 44 former presidents on 10 leadership qualities, including things like public persuasion skills, crisis leadership and moral authority. This is the first year that the rankings include former president Donald Trump. And the findings  about him and other presidents  are at times unexpected. On this holiday episode of the podcast, we dive into those survey results.