Bill Clinton: “Actually, I read a book not very long ago on second-- there is a book that's just been written on second-term…”

“Actually, I read a book not very long ago on second-- there is a book that's just been written on second-term Presidencies. And I was a little nervous about reading it before the election, but along toward the end I read it. And I got to thinking in my own mind about the second terms of, you know, President Truman's second term, President Eisenhower's second term, and President Reagan's second term, and then the others in the 20th century especially I focused upon. What the record shows is that the things which derail a second term are basically three: One is, some external event intervenes, and the President can't fulfill his dreams or hopes or his agenda. Two is--I mean, apart from the obvious case. The second thing that happens is, sometimes a President thinks he has more of a mandate than he does and tries to do too much in the absence of cooperation. That was the rap on President Roosevelt's second term, that his first and third terms were greater than his second term because of that. And the third is that sometimes a President essentially just runs out of steam. That was the rap that was attempted to be put on President Reagan, although I would remind you that in President Reagan's second term he signed the tax reform legislation and the first big welfare reform overhaul, which was quite a good bill. So what we have done to try to avoid that is, number one, make it clear that we understand the American people want us to work together with the Republicans and that we have to build a vital center; and number two, to have a driving agenda for the second term that grows out of what we have done for the last 4 years. That's why I went out of my way at the Democratic National Convention, when I was speaking to the convention and the American people, to list a very long list of specific things I wanted to do, because I wanted an agenda to organize the attention, the spirits, and the energies of people. I think when people stay busy, they do good things. And I think that that will very much help. So we have a big agenda; we have a driving agenda; we know what we have to do. And if we keep good, energetic people involved, I think we'll be able to avoid those pitfalls. But I'm very mindful of history's difficulties, and I'm going to try to beat them. Yes, Jim [Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News], go ahead. Congressional Investigations”