Second term come down
Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 7:26AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: "Rice Deputy Quits After Query Over Escort Service: Randall Tobias Oversaw U.S. Foreign Aid Programs," By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, April 28, 2007; Page A01

ARTICLE: "Tenet Details Efforts to Justify Invading Iraq: Former CIA Director Says White House Focused on the Idea Long Before 9/11," By Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, April 28, 2007; Page A01

ARTICLE: "Wolfowitz Panel Finds Ethics Breach, Officials Say: World Bank Board Could Act on Monday," By Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, April 28, 2007; Page A01

The classic end-of-administration milieu: scandal upon scandal.

We should never re-elect anybody, it would seem. Second terms? Name one that wasn't a significant come-down from the first.

The only improvement you can cite in the 20th was FDR.

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