Word: temperamentalism
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Riley: It's a little bit easier if you're talking about an 8-week-old child to figure out what temperament is. There are two basic questions: Does she fuss a lot? And how does she sleep at night? ... You could do worse than starting with that if you...
Smith: Post-Reagan, there's a whole school of thought that says the Coolidge model of the presidency at least can be taken seriously ... I have problems with this word because I find it terribly elusive. As a biographer, I'm tempted to say [temperament] is a distillation of life...
Coleman: I'd also probably add an interactive element, in the sense that it's a guiding way of how a President--or for that matter, anyone--interacts with people, information and events ... The President's temperament really defines the kinds of information that's going to come to him...
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...
Coleman: L.B.J. did like to twist arms, to say the least--the so-called L.B.J. treatment. But this was usually done on a very private level ... Now, the L.B.J. who got up onstage in press conferences wasn't that L.B.J. at all, and a lot of people would say that...