Bush's place in history

Reuters:

A Gallup Poll report said the average approval rating for Bush's fifth year, which ended on Thursday, was 45.8 percent. That is well behind the fifth-year averages of Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Harry Truman.

It was only slightly better than Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, who were both nearing unhappy ends to their presidencies in their fifth year due to the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, respectively.

We should be so lucky.