{"id":4454,"date":"2018-07-24T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:41:10","slug":"dinner-table-politics-best-presidents-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/dinner-table-politics-best-presidents-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Table Politics: Best Presidents Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Donald Trump&#8217;s approval rating soaring among Republicans and sinking with everyone else, Abby and Jim discuss their picks for the best presidents in history and why Thomas Jefferson left his presidential tenure off his tombstone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/dinner-table-politics-best-presidents-edition\/thomas-jefferson-gravestone\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4455\" src=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/thomas-jefferson-gravestone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/thomas-jefferson-gravestone.jpg 405w, https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/thomas-jefferson-gravestone-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abby doubts that Jim had the word &#8220;jowls&#8221; in his vocabulary at the time of Nixon&#8217;s resignation, and she also identifies who was the heaviest president (Taft) and the one with the best tan (Kennedy), and why weight doesn&#8217;t necessarily correlate with presidential greatness.<\/p>\n<p>Also, who was uglier &#8211; Abraham Lincoln or Daniel H. Wells?<\/p>\n<p>Download the latest episode <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/dinnertablepolitics\/Presidents.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe via iTunes <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/dinner-table-politics\/id1376411996\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WithDonald Trump's approval rating soaring among Republicans and sinking with everyone else, Abby and Jim discuss their picks for the best presidents in history and why Thomas Jefferson left his presidential tenure off his tombstone.<a href=\"http:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/dinner-table-politics-best-presidents-edition\/thomas-jefferson-gravestone\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4455\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4455\" src=\"http:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/thomas-jefferson-gravestone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>Abby doubts that Jim had the word \"jowls\" in his vocabulary at the time of Nixon's resignation, and she also  ... <a title=\"Dinner Table Politics: Best Presidents Edition\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/dinner-table-politics-best-presidents-edition\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dinner Table Politics: Best Presidents Edition\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}