AtDDtA1: Pugnax

[Dave Monroe]

--- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think anyone considered Nixon a Halfwit,
> but MANY think of Bush this way.

Monday January 22, 2007 
 
Dear Yahoo!: 
Who was the smartest U.S. president? 
Jean
El Paso, Illinois 
 
Dear Jean: 

A few years ago, the Lovenstein Institute claimed to
have analyzed the IQs of every American president from
the last 50 years. According to their findings, Bill
Clinton had the highest IQ (at 182), while George W.
Bush had the lowest (91). The study made for an
interesting read (especially for registered
Democrats), but there's just one problem -- there is
no Lovenstein Institute. The study was all a hoax. 
So, who was America's smartest president? We'll
probably never know for certain, but this article by
Steve Sailer argues it could have been any number of
people. Dwight Eisenhower, despite his reputation for
being "dumb as a tree stump," was keenly intelligent.
Richard Nixon was said to have scored a 143 on an IQ
test in high school. Such a score would make him a
genius in the eyes of many. 

Other contenders for "biggest egghead in the White
House" include Calvin Coolidge (the last president to
write his own speeches), Herbert Hoover (a successful
mining engineer before he took office), and Abraham
Lincoln, who many historians believe was America's
greatest overall president. 

http://ask.yahoo.com/20070122.html


 
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