joseph, the pecking order would be
1. Vice president (president of senate) – Dick Cheney
2. Speaker of house – Nancy Pelosi
3. president pro tempore of senate – Robert “KKK” Byrd y”s
4. Secretary of State – Condoleezza Rice
5. Secretary of the Treasury – Henry Paulson
6. Secretary of Defense – Robert Gates
7. Attorney General – Michael Mukasey
8. Secretary of the Interior – Dirk Kempthorne
9. Secretary of Agriculture – Ed Schafer
Skip Secretary of Commerce – Carlos Gutierrez (non-natural)
Skip Secretary of Labor – Elaine Chao (non-natural)
10. Secretary of Health and Human Services – Mike Leavitt
11. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development – Steve Preston
12. Secretary of Transportation – Mary Peters
13. Secretary of Energy – Samuel Bodman
14. Secretary of Education – Margaret Spellings
15. Secretary of Veterans Affairs – James Peake
16. Secretary of Homeland Security – Michael Chertoff
what you have is your top ten list of best presidents. very differant. but great non the less. and i do agree, bush jr will be either 2nd or third. though i do take up that the kennedy cuban missle crisis was a good thing for him. if not for russia thinking, and rightfully so, that kennedy did not have the stones to attack them, it never would have happened. also, nixon ended teh war in vietnam in defeat. he should have stuck it out and won!