If youre a former journalist or if youre interested in the profession, celia wexler is the author of out of the news former journalists discuss a profession in crisis. Thanks so much. Thank you. You are watching booktv. Now Alfred Zacher presents his thoughts on why some president s succeed while others fail during their second terms in office. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Appreciate your being here for this event that we can credit cspan2 for our being here this afternoon. We are familiar with the familiar phrase past is prologue, which is emblazoned on the wall of the national archives. You have heard the phrase history does not repeat itself, it rhymes. This afternoon, with your assistance, i will attempt to apply past prologue to the history of the second term. But i frankly do not understand history rhyming, so that one will be ignored. We are once again facing the challenge of reflecting our president when the wind is too close to call. We do not expect to witness an