confidence in america. a lot of presidents try to do this when they talk about how they re going to invest in our country, how they re going to invest in america, invest in our roads and education, and i think for a while, it actually worked, people liked this idea, but i actually thank people are like tired and they also understand that nothing really good ever comes out of it. if you were cure owrks here s how modern presidents have fared in this critical metric, consumer confidence plummeted by almost 60 points by the time nixon left office, ford left things better than he found them but that effectively evaporated by the end of the quarter years, the reagan presidency saw a surge of 31 points, the best showing for any modern president, that was erased by bush 41, ren stated by clinton. the bush 43 era, not only a trial of terrorism, war, anthrax attacks, the onset of the recession, showed a loss of 78 points, the worst for consumer confidence.