we worked with the fbi, and the local people, too, to investigate it, and it was difficult to move forward. we just were not making much progress. jim bodman was appointed by the fbi to get to the bottom of this case. january of 1983, the head of the fbi office came up to me and laid a paper file on my desk. and he said, jim, take this case. the justice department, they want to allow us to close a case. and i asked him, i said, sir, what do you think i m gonna do with it? i understand everybody s been interviewed three times. he said, you take this case and you work it. and he used, i think, maybe, a little stronger terminology, but i sure got the message. so, okay, january of 83, i get the case. they, supposedly, kept saying it was a drug case gone bad. it was not a racial case.
party lines have been paying off. the president s approval rating is up, way up. it s over 50%, it s at 55%. that is great news inside the white house. and up from 48% in december, an incredible climb in a short period of time. so, because i knew you were going to ask me about reagan, i looked at how he compares to the president he so revered, ronald reagan. a lot of people don t remember this. that s the graph of reagan s approval during his first two years. now, you might not remember he became that unpopular. started at 55% in february of 1981, but by january of 83, about this point in, he was down to 35%. 35. yeah. so we did an overview of looking at obama s approval ratings. that s president obama, started out 76%, went down, now up to 55%. we overlaid the two, and you can see how the two sort of match a little bit. reagan went down and then right