The truth is he inherits a strong economy with low inflation, low interest rates, high jobs growth, high workforce participation, less industrial disputes, and a AAA credit rating".
Noah inherits the task of leading the show's award-winning presidential election coverage in the lengthy walkup to the 2016 race.
"In the end, her record will be judged in part on President Obama's record, and I don't think voters would love a former secretary of state who says 'I disagreed with everything I did.' And so in some ways I think she has to live with the record she inherits from her time in office".
He must now choose which son inherits.
Mr Brown inherits what is, in electoral terms, the most successful Labour administration in history, but with the distinction between the parties blurred, and faith in politicians of all sorts fast evaporating.
But he inherits a demoralised party, unsure of its identity and role in Irish politics, and divided by the manner of his succession.
That will require an amnesty for Mr Zelaya, a unity government including some of his supporters and a willingness to discuss constitutional reform, says a Brazilian diplomat.Mr Lobo also inherits an economic hole.
But the legacy that he both leaves and inherits has drawbacks.
But Mr Toledo inherits a shrinking economy, widespread poverty, and what he called "the veil of corruption and lies" cast by his predecessor.Mr Toledo has placed economic policy in the hands of liberal technocrats.
The deficit hawks stick to the view that reigned at the Treasury under Robert Rubin (another Goldman man): that deficits mess up the government's finances and damage long-term prospects for growth by crowding out private investment.Mr Snow inherits an agenda that has largely been shaped by the supply-siders.
She inherits a slowing economy in a week of global financial panic, and takes the reins of a nation exhausted by five years of political turmoil.
