THE MACHINE
STYLES OF PRESIDENT
Aggressive
Traits:
Energetic
Ambitious
Confident
Factors of success:
Flexability
Response to public reaction
Understanding limitations
Serving the interest of the people
Positive examples:
FDR
Harry Truman (or some people may say so anyway)
John Kennedy
Bill Clinton
Negative examples:
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Lyndon Johnson (the best example)
Dick
Passive
Traits:
Principled
Agreeable
Moral
Non-interventionalist
Factors of success:
Cooperative ability
Political interest
Experience
Positve examples:
Warren Harding
William Taft
Negative examples:
Calvin Coolidge
Ike