Most likable recent U.S. President?

[Syt]

Leaving out the field of politics - which president was most likable in recent decades. Or put differently: who would you most enjoy sharing a few drinks at a bar with just chatting and talking bull? To limit the options, let's just look at the post-war presidents.

[Sheilbh]

Clinton, by a mile.  I think Obama, Reagan, Ike and Ford would also be pretty good company.  My concern with Ike would be that you have to like golf. 

Tee-totallers unnerve me, so Bush II is out.  I think Bush I's a bit too old-school patrician.  Johnson would scare me.  Carter, I am sure, would be unbearable company.  I think Nixon was very awkward with people and couldn't really do small talk.

I've no read on JFK

[DisturbedPervert]

Ronald Reagan, without a doubt. 

Kennedy and Clinton would also be interesting.  Bush II would be fun at a frat party back in his day.

Least enjoyable would be Obama or Carter.

[Razgovory]

Ronald Reagan, without a doubt.

Would be kinda awkward if he just kept falling asleep and forgetting who you are.

[MadImmortalMan]

Nah, gotta be Clinton. He and Hil know how to party. You can tell.

[Razgovory]

I imagine GWB wouldn't be to bad to hang out with.  Clinton is so overbearing.  Carter strikes me as creepy.  George Bush sr. wouldn't be to bad.  Polite and formal.  I wonder what Nixon would be like in person.

[Sheilbh]

Bush II would be fun at a frat party back in his day.

This is true.

[MadImmortalMan]

I wonder what Nixon would be like in person.

He'd be foulmouthed and blunt. I imagine he'd be a hilarious drunk.

[Syt]

I wonder what Nixon would be like in person.

Listening to some of his tapes where he makes kinda private calls to subordinates and recently having read Dallek's book about the collaboration between him and Kissinger I'd think that going out for drinks with him would have been awkward to say the least.

[Grey Fox]

Bush II.

[Admiral Yi]

It's impossible to not like Ike.  Always smiling, standing there looking so bald and dignified.

JFK would be the best to party with, get some sloppy seconds or throw backs.

Clinton would be good one on one but my guess lousy in a small group: too much of a performer.

W would probably be the best for a short time in an akward situation, like stuck in an elevator together.  Seems the easiest going, most naturally friendly.

Only one on the list who is distinctly unlikeable is Milhouse.  Even Carter would probably be very kindly and gracious in person, not at all a sanctimonious bore.

[The Minsky Moment]

Ford or Bush I would be the most likable I think.

Ike and LBJ the most interesting - Ike b/c you could try to gossip about all the ww2 stuff; LBJ just because of his personality.

[Ed Anger]

I'd like to hear poppa Bush talk about firing torpedoes at the Hiyo.

[Neil]

Ike b/c you could try to gossip about all the ww2 stuff;

Like how he shirked his duty to bang his driver?

Nixon would be the best, by far.

[C.C.R.]

Jerry.  The closest (IMO) to being a "regular guy" out of the group...