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...people I surveyed voted for Barack Obama. The vast majority of early voters submit their ballots by mail, and Hamilton County's envelopes are probably just as strongly pro-John McCain. But I was interested less in which candidate Hamilton County will vote for than in finding out what kind of person votes a month before the election. To my shock, none of them told me they were voting early "to avoid old people." Equally surprising, no one found that question to be strange. The voters were, however, dubious about my professionalism when I asked whether "people sometimes call them...
...people would not detect the difference in the affairs of their daily life for a considerable length of time," said famously taciturn President Calvin Coolidge in one of his more long-winded (and accurate) assessments of the national scene. The Federal Government, in other words, was a kind of 90-lb. weakling in the fight against the Depression monster...
...good example. [He appeared] to be just very flat during the campaign. It was hard to tell what he thought ideologically. And how he behaved in office, of course, was different in those terms ... I was just trying to think of examples of moments that have become kind of our iconic moments of ideal presidential temperament. The Cuban missile crisis seems to be one. [Franklin] Roosevelt's first 100 days, I would argue, particularly because so many people are making comparisons with the present day, is another one that I think [is] often held up as a moment in which...
Gage: Well, maybe the question is ... To what degree does it matter? So we think of someone like L.B.J., who everybody knows had this very ... volatile temperament. He liked to kind of intimidate his staffers, bring them close, and you had this whole approach. And the question is, So to what degree did that matter? To what degree did that change political outcomes...
...people would say that the L.B.J. in press conferences and in public was not nearly as effective. That L.B.J. probably couldn't get a lot done. But the L.B.J. in private was able to get things done, and you could--you can credit that type of personality, that kind of temperament, where he was sort of hot and cold to Congressmen and Senators, that he would sort of reel them in, push them back, reel them in. I mean, it wasn't just intimidating them; it was also reeling them in. The number of times we hear...