Heh! ;-D The vital thing to do, in the face of a life which is certainly never perfect, is to always maintain a sense of humour about it, and to find ways of enjoying your life despite the imperfections, and believing strongly in your own part in it.

Some presidents have had the ability to do all of that, and it served them well despite the rigors of high office. I don't envy them the job one bit, but there are some people who can handle that sort of thing pretty well.

pdq - The certain way to immense popularity in the USA is to somehow get someone else in the world to militarily attack the USA...or just be perceived to have done so. The American public then rallies around the flag and the president's popularity quickly goes through the roof as he bears down grimly and leads the nation off to war. The war then has to go well, of course....if it doesn't, his popularity will soon begin to fall drastically.

It's a risky business, but it's always the best and quickest gambit if one wishes to become popular.

The other way is to create a big improvement in the economy. That's not so easy as starting a war, but Reagan did it by irresponsibly de-regulating the major lending institutions and thereby creating a vast bubble of phony cash which naturally imploded some time later, and from which North America has never recovered to this day. But that took awhile. So Reagan did not have to pay politically for the catastrophic consequences of his actions. We are still facing those consequences now, and all the presidents since Reagan have been deeply complicit in creating the situation we are now facing. That includes both the Democrats and the Republicans. They don't work for the public. They work for the major banks and the major corporations...the biggest lobbyists, in other words. That's who runs America.