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Relations with Congress

President's Name	2017 Final Scores	Category Rankings			2017 Overall Rankings
President's Name	2017 Final Scores	2017	2009	2000	2017 Overall Rankings
Lyndon B. Johnson	83.0	1	2	1	10
George Washington	82.8	2	4	3	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	80.1	3	1	2	3
Abraham Lincoln	79.5	4	3	4	1
Thomas Jefferson	74.0	5	5	5	7
Dwight D. Eisenhower	72.0	6	6	7	5
Theodore Roosevelt	72.0	7	7	6	4
Ronald Reagan	68.9	8	8	8	9
James Monroe	66.2	9	9	10	13
William McKinley	65.6	10	10	9	16
James K. Polk	64.6	11	11	11	14
John F. Kennedy	61.3	12	12	13	8
James Madison	60.1	13	15	17	17
Harry S. Truman	57.9	14	16	15	6
George H. W. Bush	56.3	15	20	20	20
Woodrow Wilson	55.2	16	17	14	11
William J. Clinton	55.1	17	19	36	15
Calvin Coolidge	55.1	18	18	19	27
Gerald R. Ford	54.9	19	13	12	25
Ulysses S. Grant	54.6	20	21	31	22
Andrew Jackson	53.7	21	14	16	18
Grover Cleveland	53.6	22	27	18	23
William Howard Taft	52.3	23	23	28	24
John Adams	52.0	24	28	22	19
George W. Bush	51.9	25	36	NA	33
Benjamin Harrison	50.5	26	26	24	30
James A. Garfield	48.6	27	22	23	29
Martin Van Buren	47.9	28	24	25	34
Chester A. Arthur	45.9	29	25	27	35
Rutherford B. Hayes	45.8	30	35	21	32
Herbert Hoover	44.9	31	30	34	36
John Quincy Adams	44.3	32	31	35	21
James Earl Carter Jr.	44.2	33	32	33	26
Warren G. Harding	43.8	34	34	26	40
Zachary Taylor	43.3	35	29	32	31
Millard Fillmore	43.1	36	33	29	37
Richard M. Nixon	42.8	37	37	30	28
William Henry Harrison	40.5	38	38	39	38
Barack Obama	37.8	39	NA	NA	12
Franklin Pierce	36.6	40	39	37	41
John Tyler	31.0	41	40	38	39
James Buchanan	28.4	42	41	40	43
Andrew Johnson	17.1	43	42	41	42

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