Jambo wanted a definition for our use of the term "Legacy", and I didn't give one.
I like the thought that we define what the President brought to the job that altered (for good or bad) the Office and/or the country as a whole. Reagan changed the paradigm that the seven previous Presidents had established in regards to US policy towards the USSR... and in doing so, contributed to the fall of the USSR as a nation and communism as a global political system of government. Lincoln cemented the Federalist view that a strong central government was the ultimate expression of authority in the country, and not the individual States... and the Union was preserved from secession and war for the next 150 years. Those are "legacies"... those are the lasting impressions made on the Oval Office and the nation by the actions and policies of past Presidents... like them or not.
I don't think we can give an honest assesment of what a President acheives while in Office without weighing and considering the legacy question. Just my thoughts, though... am I wrong?
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