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Tough foreign policy decisions. high ethical standards. and neither one really cared about their own personal popularity and i think historically if you look at leaders like churchill and truman, those are people like george w. bush who really didn't care much about popular opinion. truman had the lowest in-office favorable rating of 22 percent, which was even beneath richard nixon's, which was 24. so i think there's a very good chance -- i mean, history is a great arbiter more than the frame we look at in the present tiles. i think there's a very good chance that history will look favorably o...

Historians look at the lens of the entire framework of our history and the troubles that these presidents saw and give them credit for the tough decisions they made. and credit for not trying to run popularity contests while president. martha: and he didn't focus much on the polls and he always said that he thought he'd be judged by history, he even said he thought that the war in iraq would ultimately be judged as something good. then we saw the neeks week cover that popped up, it said victory in iraq, it had sort of a half-picture of president bush. i think we have that cover. court of, you ...

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