Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140424:04:08:00
This is them graphed since world war ii. these are presidential approval ratings and ranked them from highest to lowest since world war ii. the far left, the guy with the biggest approval ratings, that's jfk. you can see right next to each other, sort of in the center to the right, that's george w. bush right next to richard nixon. they're almost exactly the same for the average approval ratings over the course of their whole presidencies. ford, carter, and truman actually fare a little bit worse than george w. bush and richard nixon. people think of lbj as having been so unpopular, right? vie...