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...persuade people of the need to effect compromise, to restore the belief in consensus, not only inspiration will be needed but, perhaps more important, a very old political skill. Harry Truman spoke of it when he said: "You know what makes leadership? It is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it." That really amounts to a redefinition of self-interest. As Barney Frank
...turns to sing some summer school papers and tell his assistants that he'll be glad to help type student telephone numbers. He continues, "Once I had a woman section leader who said about my show, 'Lots of fun, lots of fun.'" He mocks her, sounding like Truman Capote. "That infuriates me. It's like saying, 'Oh, look at those kids having a good time.' I'm not satisfied with that...
...perhaps can be nothing else, so exigent and awesome are the demands upon them. Yet our best Presidents have clung to small pleasures that tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln told stories. Theodore Roosevelt relished the outdoors. His cousin Franklin collected stamps and ship models. Truman devoured biographies. Perhaps the last President not consumed by power was Dwight Eisenhower, who found something special in painting, fishing a quiet trout stream or being on the golf course. Some doubt his legislative contributions, but we can now by contrast see how much his spirit meant to the nation...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
NONFICTION 1-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (3) 2-Times to Remember, Kennedy (1) 3-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 4-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward (4) 5-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (5) 6-Management, Drucker (7) 7-Go East, Young Man, Douglas (9) 8-Working, Terkel (6) 9-Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie (8) 10-The Wall Street Gang...