mr. noriega. that showed his toughness. he did pretty well the first two years.when president clinton was an elected his job was to mainly mix the economy and he made a number of mistakess. one, his white house was not well structured or tightly run. two, he proposed programs to congress that lacked support. three, he said i'm willing to compromise and the republicans opposed him and the democrats rolled him and he had a tough time and he got stuck on gays in the military and his first year, i think, was basically, defense. trying establish himself and stepped up to the stature we expect presidents to do. in the case of george w. bush. when he was elected, you call in 2000 was a close election and he did not have the most popular votes. there was no major economic problem. the issue was, did he have the knowledge and experience to make presidential decisions. in his white house in the first three months. the so-called on moon period which he sad and clinton did not have. in the first three months they took president bush and made him go around the country and mak