I'd say that Ike was a reasonably good president, and a rather likeable man, I just wish Adlai Stevenson had got the chance to try the job. I agree with JFK and FDR were great speakers, as was Clinton in his own way. Clinton was a genius at relating to people, he just had trouble controlling certain...impulses. ;-)

Nixon's many talents were fatally compromised by has paranoid sense of persecution. He thought he was surrounded by enemies, and in the end, he was.