MICAHEL BESCHLOSS:

Well you know sometimes people think that a one term presidency means that you haven't been a great president. And yes he was not reelected but he was not reelected to some extent because he did things that were really important such as: presided over the end of the Cold War. George Bush made a relationship with a Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev it made Gorbachev comfortable enough to open the Berlin Wall and Eastern Europe go out of the Soviet orbit let Germany unify with NATO. And as a result when Bush ran for president in 1992 for re-election he couldn't make the argument that you Americans really need my foreign policy skills because they felt were in the wake of a Cold War. It's better to get someone whose obsession is with the domestic which described Bill Clinton who won.