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- Nov 07, 2020
Things were so unpredictable in Comey's first meeting with President-elect Trump, the former FBI director immediately took notes in his car after the interaction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A number of Donald Trump's supporters told me during the campaign they had faith that he would be a good president because he would be helped by the experts around him. But the president's improvisation saps experts of their key skill: pattern recognition.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the modern presidency, the Chief Executive is expected to respond to anxious national moments with words that stabilize the country. President Trump chose a different route. He did not give a stirring speech of unity or create a national gathering point around common ideals. He spent his passion on other things.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinton's focus on experience. And the race turned on a remarkable speech Obama gave on the night of Nov. 10, 2007, in Des Moines.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
People out there with pre-existing conditions, they are worried. Are they going to have the guarantee of coverage if they have a pre-existing condition or if they live in a state where the governor decides that's not a part of the health care, or that the prices are going to go up? That's the worry.
- Greatness
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