al felzenberg, how do we typically rate presidents? >> guest: not well. every presidents day or july 4th or slow time in the news we're told by the newspapers that yet another fall has been done where a ballot was set to 50 historians, 100 historians, and here are the great presidents. they usually put them into five categories; great, near great, average, below average and failure. various changes in it. and they'll tell us what goes into the criteria. all the familiar faces come up, the ones we see on the currency, the ones we build monuments to in this this city and others. it doesn't really tell you what distinguishes the great from the ordinary. and i was just overjoyed yesterday to see that somebody's putting a bill in congress giving george washington back his birthday. you know, somebody decided in the '70s that all great men were born on a weekend, and so every holiday was changed except veterans' day and july 4th, which you can't change to a weekend. and all presidents are the same. they're not the same, and the result is students have a very ha