Who is the most admired American president of the last 25 years?
By a wide margin, a new poll claims Bill Clinton to be the most admired President of the last 25 years, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg Survey.
Forty-two percent of respondents named the 42nd president when asked which U.S. president of the past 25 years they admired most. The results were more than twice the percentage of any other president, Yahoo News reported.
An equal amount of admirers were roughly distributed between the other three candidates.
Coming in second with 18 percent was Barack Obama, followed by George W. Bush at 17 percent and George H.W. Bush at 16 percent.
The poll of 1,238 adults was conducted June 2-8, a week before the elder Bush made headlines for celebrating his 90th birthday with a skydive, the Wall Street Journal reported.
There is a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percent, UK MailOnline reported.
The poll results were a reflection of how much Clinton had done to polish his image since leaving the White House in early 2001.
But Clinton, who has done extensive philanthropic work through his Clinton Global Initiative, was already admired by many when he left office.
"His approval rating at the end of his second term was 66 percent - the highest of any of the four presidents who've served in last quarter-century," according to Yahoo News. "George W. Bush's approval rating was 34 percent when he left the office in 2001, and George H. W. Bush had a 56 percent approval rating in 1993."
President Obama's approval rating was 44 percent, according to a Gallup taken in early June.
The survey is part of a series of polls done as a collaboration between the news organizations and the Annenberg Public Policy Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania.
The poll confirms the latest evidence that the Clinton's are America's most popular political figures at the moment.
