Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...
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...