Reagan den største amerikaner nogensinde

Discovery Channel og AOL har foretaget en måling af, hvem amerikanerne synes er den største amerikaner nogen sinde. Resultatet?

Former US President Ronald Reagan has been voted the "greatest American" of all time by his fellow citizens.

Mr Reagan, who died last year aged 93, topped a list of 10 contenders, which featured six former presidents.

Man skulle også mene at det at hive USA ud af den sump det var i i slutningen af 70erne, og undervejs knække østblokken fortjente lidt anerkendelse.

USA´s nuværende præsident George W. Bush kom ind som nummer 6 nogensinde, over den i Europa så elskede Bill Clinton. BBC kan ikke få sig selv til at sige, så istedet bliver det til:

Current US President George W Bush and his predecessor Bill Clinton, whose
presidency was tarnished by the Monica Lewinski sex scandal, are both in
the top 10.

En tilsvarende undersøgelse foretaget i Tyskland i 2003 lover ikke så fantastisk godt for det land:

In a poll held in Germany in 2003, former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer beat Reformation monk Martin Luther and political thinker Karl Marx into second and third place in a top 10 that included Albert Einstein and the inventor of the printing press Johannes Gutenberg.

Lover ikke godt.

Henrik