presidential history in terms of the second term? often not great, as you have been saying. first of all, we have to give him points for reading the history and benefitting from it. often times, presidents either don t read it or don t learn theless sons. but i think he has. one of the lessons, he was referring to it in the press conference, don t think your reelection gives you a mandate that goes beyond what it is. don t overreach. lyndon johnson had the biggest landslide in history and prosecuted the vietnam war for years. tens of thousands of americans dead on the basis of a flimsy resolution. that was overreach. 1973, i m not even going to talk about nixon and watergate. we forget the fact that nixon came into a second term, wanted to roll back the great society and new deal and people said you don t have either house of congress. he said, fine. what i m going to do is impoundment. i just won t spend the money for programs i don t like. and he started doing it.
often not great, as you have been saying. first of all, we have to give him points for reading the history and benefitting from it. often times, presidents either don t read it or don t learn the lessons. but i think he has. one of the lessons, he was referring to it in the press conference, don t think your reelection gives you a mandate that goes beyond what it is. don t overreach. lyndon johnson had the biggest landslide in history and prosecuted the vietnam war for years. tens of thousands of americans dead on the basis of a flimsy resolution. that was overreach. 1973, i m not even going to talk about nixon and watergate. we forget the fact that nixon came into a second term, wanted to roll back the great society and new deal and people said you don t have either house of congress. he said, fine. what i m going to do is impoundment. i just won t spend the money for programs i don t like. and he started doing it. had watergate not come about, he
news. harold, real quick. i ve got other things it was a year ago today we were all saying florida, ohio, won by republicans. democrats can t win it. scott kasich won a year ago this week. so think about how much a year can change. exactly. let s be disciplined and get to other news. let s be disciplined. not overreaching. exactly. everybody overreach don t overreach. we were talking to bill clinton yesterday, and off the set we were talking about the parallels between 94 and 2010, 92. and we both said he overreached in 92, obama overreached in 2008, republicans overreached two years later and the result usually is the country swings back. they are not ideological. i do want to get to mitt romney s response to eric erickson yesterday. but an apparent open microphone now exposing a private conversation between president