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There are many ways to rate a president's legacy. Economists, historians, and political pundits can tussle for decades over the topic, and usually do. Here at the Buzz, we have various approaches to gauging a commander in chief's status in the popular imagination. One of them is tracking the online demand for his quotes.

Admittedly, this method is not scientific. It's not long range, either; we're examining one week's worth of "quotes" queries. But it's a snapshot of status—or, at least, recognition—from the thousands of people turning to the Web each day to find comments that inspire them or outrage them or make them laugh.

On this week's list of White House quotable notables, Honest Abe maintains his reputation as the man with the silver tongue. John F. Kennedy was the only one to come through with just his initials, although we did spot equally informal lookups for "abe lincoln quotes" and "teddy roosevelt quotes."

Finally, no disrespect to the 30th occupant of the Oval Office, but if anyone has a good reason for why Calvin Coolidge is beating out FDR this week, we'd love to hear it...

A few notes...

We didn't include quote searches for other inhabitants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but if we did, "eleanor roosevelt quotes" would have ranked #2, just after Lincoln. You also would've seen "dan quayle quotes" posing cutely toward the bottom of the roster.

We kept our eyes on the men themselves, but it should be noted that "presidential quotes" and "famous presidential quotes" both pull in a high number of searches each week. Now, that's a nice legacy for the office.