Since I was born:

• John F. Kennedy – Ask not…
• Lyndon Johnson – Great Society, Vietnam, riots
• Richard Nixon – entrée to China, détente, Watergate, scandal
• Gerald Ford – pardon, healing
• Jimmy Carter – human rights, malaise, hostages
• Ronald Regan – confidence, communication, the effectual end of communism in Europe
• George Bush I – laize-faire economics, literal end of communism in Europe
• Bill Clinton – economic boom, let the good times roll, quasi-conservative when forced
• George Bush II – hang ’em high, heads will roll, death, destruction, try to lie your way out, my way or no way

I get the feeling that things aren’t going so well.