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...Some Presidents have a hard time being instantly shrink-wrapped on Inauguration Day. One minute he is the Leader of the Free World; the next, he's history. "What a great change can come to a man in a matter of moments," the departing Harry Truman told a friend after Dwight Eisenhower's swearing in. Adjusting to a sudden power outage can be a remarkable challenge. Eisenhower had to be taught how to dial the phone. Calvin Coolidge was frustrated that people didn't always realize he was no longer God. "People seem to think the presidential machinery should keep...
...record suggests there are some things a President can do to boost his long-term value. Of all his predecessors, Bush may have the most to learn from Herbert Hoover, the one to whom, given the current Great Recession, he is increasingly compared. Bush may not be popular, but there aren't crowds calling for him to be hanged or accusing him of raiding Fort Knox before fleeing the country. Hoover left office in an even deeper hole than Bush does, but he had the great advantage of a strong constitution. He lived another 31 years, during which time...
...always felt politics would be just a chapter of my life, not my life," Bush told me. He may be content to leave his legacy to history, but if Hoover, Carter and his father are any guides, using his platform to do great and lasting good for a cause he cares about may do as much for his image as any future historian with a polishing cloth...
...Williamson, who has sold hats to everyone from Timberlake to Andre 3000 and Kirsten Dunst, is anticipating a post-Inaugural uptick in sales. "Anytime you see men in hats in a high-profile situation, it's always great for the hat business," he says, adding, "If it was the President, it would be phenomenal, of course...
...these people writing ad hoc papers about what to do at this agency or how to deal with that policy, but that was an extension of how Clinton's mind works," says one of the many Obama aides who is a veteran of the Clinton Administration. "Clinton had this great horizontal intelligence. He could pull an idea from a meeting he had in northern Italy and apply it to spreading broadband service through Iowa. It was amazing but not exactly efficient. Obama is more vertical. He pushes the process along, streamlines it. We had one 25-to-50-page policy...