and then we had despite impeachment. bill clinton calculated that impeachment was now working for him and his opponents overreach and he would come out ahead. and then you have harry truman who even though you would have thought he was cursed and left office at immense levels of unpopularity, he's the patron saint of all second term presidents because he's ranked as in the top ten of presidents in our history. >> the guy you are writing about now didn't have a chance to get a second term. >> george bush, sr. part of the second problem is mathematical. twice as much time for the weight of the world and all sorts of problems to come to bear. and i think it is striking that of those two presidencies you