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...DIDN"T SEEM...
...20th century, Americans enjoyed more of both than any other people in history. Not all Americans, but most. Certainly most voters. Then came 9/11, and out went secure peace, but we still had prosperity. And then last month, the other shoe dropped. Now both peace and prosperity seem uncertain. When we were riding high, we called it "business as usual" and found it intolerable. Politicians of every stripe promised to rescue us with a magic elixir: "change." Well, now we have change. Kind of makes you miss that old business as usual, doesn...
...anecdote has fostered a mix-and-match parlor game. Nixon: first-rate mind, second-class temperament. Reagan: second-rate mind, first-class temperament. Perhaps only Lincoln tops the class in both categories. But as we go down the homestretch in this presidential election, voters seem to be making up their minds as much by evaluating the dispositions of the candidates as their position papers. Voting for President is the most intimate vote we ever make; we're deciding whom we want in our living room for the next four years...
...crisis has deepened, Bair has insisted that the FDIC's coffers need support. Currently the agency has $45 billion in reserves. That may not seem like much next to the $700 billion Paulson just got from Congress, but Bair notes that in the past, the FDIC hasn't needed much. Even at the peak of the savings-and-loan crisis in the late 1980s, when thrifts were closing at the rate of one a day, the FDIC maintained its perfect record of returning every penny of every insured depositor's money, and Bair has preserved that record through 15 bank...
Gage: The question of temperament can come to stand in for when there just don't seem to be a lot of other ways to predict someone's behavior ... and you've seen this much more in campaigns. George W. Bush is a 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...