How Can the President Get Back on Track?

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•KENNETH DUBERSTEIN Former chief of staff for Ronald Reagan Every second-term presidency deserves a mulligan, a do-over. But you can't have a country and a President that drift for two or three years. You need a game plan. First you have to give a mea culpa to the country. Then you have to do some house cleaning, bring in people with the highest integrity and credibility, who are first-class managers. You have to think of big, bold things to do, become king of the hill again and find major legislative victories, veto things. You have to be a world leader. Anytime there's good economic news, the President has to announce it. And finally, you have to help elect a Republican successor so the press won't write that your eight years have been repudiated because someone from the other party was elected to succeed you.