Others believed he had succeeded in refreshing his party's identity and setting them on course for the next general election.
In the days that followed, Mr. Jordan informed the President that he had succeeded in engaging Francis Carter to represent Ms. Lewinsky.
His first splash came in 1968, when he announced that he had succeeded in making a switch out of amorphous silicon that relied on a principle he called Ovonics--named, of course, after himself.
In September 2009, Mr. Grassley thought he had succeeded in doing the same for health care when the Senate Finance Committee approved his amendment to require Members of Congress and staff to obtain insurance via the new ObamaCare exchanges.
In an attempt to quell the continuing insurgency in Iraq and bring closer the point when the country is able to control its own security, Mr Allawi announced on Monday that he had succeeded in getting nine of the country's main factions to dissolve their militias, with a combined strength of 100, 000 fighters.
He had tried to advance in this way, but had not succeeded, and so he had retreated into the muteness they expected, and perhaps preferred.
Mr Brown last became governor when he succeeded Ronald Reagan, who had in turn succeeded Mr Brown's father.
His support team desperately fought to pull off the trailing hose but by the time they had succeeded he was in 18th spot and dead last.
Most likely, Cook argued, Morsy was simply doing what Sadat did when in 1971 he fired other generals with whom he had been forced to share power when he first succeeded Nasser in 1969.
But the reason that Massachusetts Republicans have held that office for so long is that, number one, they've had better candidates in the past, I mean William Weld succeeded Michael Dukakis after he had a failed run for the presidency.
He said he had previously "tried and succeeded to make one with my eyes closed".
He said the new policy had "succeeded in changing the label on the box", but added that "much of the original content remains".
Lara, rated as one of the game's finest batsmen, has had a very mixed record since he succeeded Courtney Walsh as captain prior to the 1998 series against England.
He would not have succeeded if the bank had required its employees to ask for identification when they were asked their passwords, or if they had required their employees to hang up and phone back.
He had no desire to create a dynasty, and was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
He preached reconciliation and peace, saying the RUFP had "succeeded in bringing the concerns of the mass of poor Sierra Leoneans to the fore".
"If I was going to be successful, I had to imitate those who succeeded before, " he says.
Sir Mervyn, who will be succeeded in July by Mark Carney, said he had much sympathy with regulators trying to manage the banking system both before, and after, the financial crisis.
Although Mr. Sarkozy says he has succeeded in avoiding the pitfalls of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, which had to seek international help, he has failed to deliver on his electoral promises: Unemployment is at a 13-year high of nearly 10% and public debt is nearly 90% of the country's annual output, up from 64% in 2007.
He was succeeded in turn by his son, Lorenzo (the magnificent), who had no luck and less judgment.
Reagan nearly succeeded in wresting the nomination from Ford, demonstrating how formidable a national figure he had become.
He is especially withering about the New York district attorney, Cyrus Vance junior, who had only succeeded the legendary Robert Morgenthau at the start of 2010.
"The advantage of having a referendum after the renegotiation rather than before is that the public would then be able to judge whether or not the government had succeeded and this would put pressure on the government to negotiate forcefully, " he said.
BBC: EU referendum: MPs told to vote against Monday's motion
Had President Obama succeeded in making the election about inequality, which it appears now he will not, it would have amounted to one of the great examples of changing the subject in recent political history (as I pointed out a few months ago in a talk at the Cato Institute).
Although he scrapped the scheme's western extension zone when he succeeded Mr Livingstone in 2010, Mr Johnson has described the original scheme as a success which had benefited London.
He wrote to his president, Jimmy Carter, that a plan to try to rescue by force 52 Americans held prisoner in the United States embassy in Tehran had been made against his judgment and that he was resigning as secretary of state, whether the mission succeeded or failed.
He was succeeded as governor by Carnahan, who won terms in 1992 and 1996 by the widest margin any Democrat had gained since 1968.
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