TRUMAN GOT BOOTED AFTER ONE TERM TOO:

More thoughts on Harry Truman (Jacob Heilbrunn, September 28, 2011, National Affairs)

When Harry Truman was about to step down fro the presidency, he reportedly said something. Along these lines to an aide, "Poor Ike! He's used to the military, where everyone follows orders. As president, he will learn that he send out a directive and nothing happens." what Truman meant by that, of course, was that ultimately the bureaucracy rules Washington. The troubling thing about Barack Obama is that he never seemed to grasp that he had to govern as president instead of being a passive observer. The new revelations in Ron Suskin's book about Obama being ignored by his own advisers only compounds the sense of unease surrounding the Obama presidency.

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