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It is silly for historians to evaluate current events. They of all people should know that the real impact of decisive actions -- whether widely perceived as positive or negative at the time -- can take decades to fully evaluate as ripple effects from previous actions run through world events.
I suspect good historians know this, so the ones that are left are the political hacks who are more interested in grinding a political axe than providing a dispassionate and measured evaluation of a presidency.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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