1.   Reagan became the first incumbent to serve two terms in the presidency since Dwight D..

2.   Clinton is the first presidential incumbent in my memory to be so widely bashed in the European press.

3.   He is the first elected Democratic incumbent since Franklin Roosevelt to go unchallenged in his own party.

4.   In contrast, President Clinton found himself the first Democratic incumbent since the rise of soft money.

5.   Pataki is hardly the first well-placed incumbent to adopt such a strategy.

6.   President Ernesto Zedillo, who has pledged to be the first incumbent not to choose a successor, nonetheless favors Ochoa.

7.   The Connecticut senator noted that Clinton is the first Democratic incumbent in decades to win renomination without fighting off a challenge from within the party.