President Obama said in an interview with ABC News that he’d “rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.”
In an interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC’s World News, Obama acknowledged the political costs of trying to pass health care reform, but said that “there is a tendency in Washington to believe our job description, of elected officials, is to get reelected. That’s not our job description.”
He added: “I don’t want to look back on my time here and say to myself, ‘All I was interested in was nurturing my own popularity.'”
The full interview airs on ABC’s World News at 6:30 p.m. ET tonight, on Nightline at 11:35 p.m., and on Good Morning America at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
