http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2005/111705/topstory2.html
Second term blues...
EXPERT OPINION/A Penn political science prof says Bush could recover his poll numbers?-with a bit of housecleaning.
Second-term blues?
By HEATHER A. DAVIS
What happens to presidents in their second term? In recent memory, plenty.
Nixon faced Watergate. Reagan coped with Iran-Contra. Clinton had Monica.
Even before that, FDR's plan to pack the courts with judges friendly to his New Deal plan failed, while Eisenhower's Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign in 1958.
History tells us that second-term blues are hardly unprecedented, and this presidency seems to be no exception. George W. Bush, who is dealing with a growing dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq, the potentially high price of home heating oil, the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, fallout from the government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina and the investigation of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Earlier this year, Bush's effort to revamp Social Security met with fierce opposition from Congress and the general public; he was also forced to withdraw the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
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