Your first sentence sums up the Carter administration. Total failure on every front - foreign affairs and domestic policy.
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David Gergen said on CNN 3 nights ago that if Bush and his "new vision team" doesn't get their act together by the middle of July and his numbers don't get back into the mid-40s...he will stand with Jimmy Carter as having a failed presidency regardless of the economy.
Gergen said Bush should be out touting the economy every single day in some shape or form whether its through people in his administration or himself and that he should think about adopting an address to the nation every other month in primetime to give updates on the war, the economy, and where things are headed...that 11:30 est press conferences are for soundbytes and nothing else.