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University of Michigan’s David Winter published an article analyzing the power, achievement, and affiliation motives present in George W. Bush’s inaugural address. Using a system identical to the one used by Schultheiss, Winter concluded that, compared to previous presidents, Bush was high on affiliation and power motivations but a little below ave
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The icing on this triumphal cake was Johnson’s success in achieving his objectives without awareness of what he had done from supporters who disapproved of those objectives. He himself, of course, had voted for the George Amendment, and he told his reactionary bankrollers that he intended to keep on doing so. On March 3, he wrote Ed Clark, the atto
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Human beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul.
Barack Obama • A Promised Land
he did something that no one had ever done, but every presidential candidate seems to have done since: he asked a simple but now legendary question, ‘Are you better off now than you were four years ago?’ He said:
Steven Bartlett • The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
THOUGH TRANQUILLITY DESCENDED BRIEFLY on Washington after Andrew Johnson’s acquittal, he disappointed Republicans who imagined he would prove more pliant on Reconstruction.
Ron Chernow • Grant
LET’S TAKE A DEEPER look at the fastest-climbing US presidents. The ones who bring down the average time spent on the political ladder. Here they are:
Shane Snow • Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
entrenched populists to become president; Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, who styled his own career on the pro-market progressivism that Clinton called the “Third Way”; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian minister and World Bank official, often seen in Aspen and at TED and elsewhere along the MarketWorld circuit, who had recently joine
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
surface?” “If they