text:  You're only as good as your last show, Clyde. You're only as good as your last gig, Clyde. Biden is entering his reelection campaign as a weak and embattled incumbent. While the press might have welcomed Biden into the White House with comparisons to Franklin Roosevelt in the beginning, these are what, of course, Biden encouraged. He now finds himself dogged by less flattering comparisons to Lyndon Johnson, whose grand domestic policy agenda ended up being overshadowed by the blood that he allowed to be cruelly and uselessly shed in Vietnam.