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On the recordApril 19, 2006
It's rare that they do dig themselves out. We ought to understand that, once you get down this far, as Jimmy Carter learned, as -- as -- as George H.W. Bush learned, when he started crashing, and he couldn't -- he couldn't reverse it, it's very -- very rare.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Commenting on the difficulty for presidents to recover from low approval ratings.

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