In an interview with CBS’s Steve Kroft on the ’60 Minutes’ television program last week, President Barack Obama claimed to be the fourth best President of the United States all-time in terms of a president's accomplishments.
Though the comment was cut from the televised interview on CBS, it has been discovered that the comment was an outtake from the end of the recorded interview. A transcript of the entire interview reveals Obama having said that he would hold his accomplishments so far as President of the United States against the accomplishments of any former presidents, except for the accomplishments of Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
The exact quote from the interview was:
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history.
From approval rating polls stretching back for the better part of some two-to-three years, Obama has a much higher opinion of his accomplishments than most Americans have of him. His job approval rating still wallows around 44% by Gallup and various other highly-respected pollsters throughout the nation.
Source: CBS
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