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...remarkable instinct for important problems and a real drive to get the important answer instead of lots of particular answers,” Harrison said...
...goes to the most basic American ideal, which is that to be a great President you don't have to be a bookish scholar, and you don't have to embody everything you might find in a civics book, but rather that the most important attributes are instinct and judgment, principles and values...
...specifics of policy. Comics mocked him; reporters and commentators raised questions about his hands-off management style and lax work habits. But the inside story of the President's handling of the war so far shows that what he lacks in experience, he has made up in instinct...
...then organized a weekly breakfast with the Democratic and Republican leadership. Everything seemed greased at first. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pulled Bush aside the day after the attacks and told him that he should come to Congress and ask for the authority and money to wage war. Bush's instinct might have been to circumvent Congress, but Hastert made the invitation too sweet to decline. "Lay out your vision," he said. "We're going to give you whatever resources you need...
...just as important, what not to. Tell me about your son, he would say to a speechless mother, and then he would go quiet, and she would start to talk, and his listening gave her her voice back. In the face of so much agony, every instinct instructs you to flee; he has gone to close to 200 wakes and memorials and funerals. He says it gives him his strength...