I agree with Richard Brookhiser that second terms are, more or less, pathetic disappointments. After four of the most tumultuous years of my life (and I lived through Kennedy’s assassination, Viet Nam, the horrid sixties, Nixon’s wage and price controls, Ford’s WIN buttons, Carter’s malaise, and Clinton’s intern training program, I think I’m ready for a dull four years of military victory, peace, and economic growth.