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What does it mean?
The speaker reflects on past political challenges including low approval ratings and personal scandals as the good old days.
In plain terms
Looking back at low approval ratings and scandals those were the good days.
What can you take from it?
Perspective on difficulty changes over time.

Where it applies

  • political retrospection
  • media interviews
  • personal reflection

Putting it to work

  • gaining perspective
  • minimizing current issues
  • narrating history

Questions to consider

  • How do leaders view past crises?
  • What defines good times in politics?

Another view

Calling difficult times good old days may minimize the severity of those past issues.

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