Reagan was a great man, Bush....not even close. So whats your point?
That Bush's "Quiet Service" was due to the fact that no one wants to hear what he has to say. The republicans don't want to remind people that he exists.
That's not true at all. Bush and Clinton both left with shit approval ratings. Bush has been clear that he doesn't want to be in the game anymore and he's lived up to that. Clinton wanted to be the unofficial leader of the party and up until Obama he had done so. And after Obama, he's still going to be in a position for that.
Bush left with shit approval ratings, yes, but not Clinton.
June 4, 1999
Presidential Job Approval: Bill Clinton's High Ratings in the Midst of Crisis, 1998
Frank Newport
Editor in Chief, The Gallup Poll
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's presidential job approval measure has been used as a shorthand summation of the public's opinion of a president for over 50 years. The job approval measure came under particular scrutiny and criticism during 1998, based primarily on the seemingly paradoxical fact that the measure did not drop precipitously as Clinton's Lewinsky assignations became public and as Bill Clinton became only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached.
The facts are straightforward: Bill Clinton received the highest job approval ratings of his administration during the Lewinsky/impeachment controversy. As the Lewinsky situation unfolded, Clinton's job approval went up, not down, and his ratings remained high for the duration of the impeachment proceedings:
Bill Clinton's mean job approval rating, 1st quarter 1993 through 1st quarter, 1999 was 53.8
Bill Clinton's mean job approval rating for the five years preceding 1998 was 51.3
Bill Clinton's mean job approval rating in 1998 was 63.8
Bill Clinton's average job approval rating for 1998 was thus 10 points above his overall administration to-date average
Bill Clinton's average job approval rating for 1998 was thus 12.5 points above his administration average for the five years preceding 1998
Bill Clinton's average job approval rating for 1998 was 5.7 points above that of the previous year, 1997, which in turn was higher than that of any of the four years which preceded it
Bill Clinton's job approval rating in the first quarter during which the Lewinsky situation became public knowledge (1st quarter 1998) jumped 5.6 points compared to the immediately preceding quarter
Presidential Job Approval: Bill Clinton's High Ratings in the Midst of Crisis, 1998