Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...sick and tired of hearing people say you ought to have two Presidents. I don't have any sympathy for that argument. Don't misunderstand me. It is a job that takes about twelve to 14 hours a day. But what is wrong with that? The President of the United States ought to be willing to spend that land of time. Anybody who walks in there thinking he can punch a time clock at 9 in the morning and leave at 5 has got another thought coming. We do not elect Presidents who want that kind...
...awful lot of perfunctory, ceremonial things that have to be done. They take up about 15% to 20% of a President's time - more in election years. But I guess they have to be done. After all, if they are not done, the public gets the wrong perception of the President, that he is behind the walls of the West Wing of the White House and he does not want to meet the people. But if you look at it from a cost-benefit ratio of time spent, he ought to be spending his time on the business that...
...clearly seen. His own staff, his Administration, Congress, the press and public all need from him a clear indication of what he considers important; of his values, his priorities, and the directions in which he seeks to lead the nation and the world. Whether his direction is right or wrong, it is essential to the debate that it be visible, and that it bear a logical relationship to his other policies and programs...
...series of minidramas. But real life is not played out in such minidramas, and the real choices the President and Congress face are not framed in such neat, capsulized ways. More often than not, what is emotionally appealing - and therefore dramatically captivating - is intellectually vacuous and substantively wrong. What makes good television often makes bad policy...
...Tekere trial. I would refute any suggestion that the government is on trial. Only one man, along with seven others, is on trial. If a man has done wrong, well, that man should be made answerable for his actions...