But it's a very different thing to take on a successful, two-term Democratic president.
Bill Clinton is the only two-term president since reconstruction not to have this occur.
Here is how two-term presidents were regarded about a year after being re-elected.
Mr. Bush is hardly the first two-term president who has suffered through a difficult second term.
But you, Oliver I'm going to see to it that you're a two-term president.
He was a two-term president of the Chamber.
Alfred Mahan was a two-term Democratic president from 1889 to 1897.
But one two-term Republican president doesn't seem to get mentioned much: George Bush*.
Why the high failure rate for two-term presidents?
Voters must be reminded that his record in 40 months outshines the accomplishments of most two-term Presidents.