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"What Factors contribute to a 'Failed' presidency? Illustrate your answer with examples from the period 1961-2004"
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AMERICAN POLITICS "What Factors contribute to a 'Failed' presidency? Illustrate your answer with examples from the period 1961-2004" On the surface, the most straightforward way of deciding who can be deemed a successful president is whether they complete a second term of presidency by gaining a victory upon re-election after completion of their first term. The biggest 'failure' of a president is surely not being victorious in election for a second term of power, or worse still not being elected in the first place. More crucial is to establish the key 'factors' as to why a particular president 'failed' to successfully fulfil two terms of power. It would be to simplistic to state that, in recent times, Presidents Johnsen, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and Bush have all been successful for they have all completed, or in Bush's case set to complete, two terms of Presidential power. In many cases Presidents have been extremely...
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