Character and Personality for the President Barrack Obama.Perhaps harder to determine but just as important in evaluating apresident are the personal qualities the person brings to theoffice. Historians have reached consensus on the following traitsas being important to a president: intelligence, honesty,integrity, character, flexibility, adaptability, and mostimportantly decisiveness. What about presidential relationships(i.e., with Congress, the press, the courts, the public, etc.)?Here you should look at popularity (do not place too much emphasison opinion polls e.g., look at Reagan and Bush, neither will beconsidered Great presidents; Harding was extremely popular yetconsistently considered a failure).
