[OC] Zustimmungsrate des US-Präsidenten

Key events explaining the rises and drops^((a)):

* Truman early huge drop: end of WW2 patriotism & strike wave of 1945–1946
* Truman continuous drop: 1950-53 Korean War & 1951 dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur
* Johnson continuous drop: Vietnam war & ghetto riots
* Nixon huge drop: 1972 Watergate scandal & 1973 oil crisis & 1973–1975 recession
* Ford drop: 1974 presidential pardon to Nixon
* Carter drop: 1979 energy crisis
* Reagan drop: 1986 Iran–Contra affair
* Bush rise: 1990-91 Gulf War patriotism
* Bush huge drop: recession & he instituted new taxes after promising he wouldn’t
* GW Bush huge rise: 9/11
* GW Bush continuous drop: 2003 Iraq war & 2005 Hurricane Katrina handling & 2008 financial crisis

(a) Based on my research, mainly on Wikipedia. No need to say, I’m not an historian, so please feel free to add or correct this list.

Someone might look at this and notice the spike for Bush when he invaded Iraq and the other spike for his son when 911 hapened.

This might lead to totally real Danish terror attacks on Washington DC and a subsequent invasion of Greenland.

Or Vance might look at the high approval ratings that Johnson started out with and get better ideas.

Not just lower than Obama. Lower than Biden. Somehow still higher than Nixon!?

Now overlay economic highs and lows.

Is it just coincidence that the Reagan and Bush form once continuous line?

TL;DR, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama were some of the best US leaders of the past 100 years given that their ratings improved over time despite a few downturns, likely due to the unpopular policies needed to turn things around.