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<some counted him (GWB) as one of the least-talented (intellectually) Presidents the U.S. has ever seated> That's the popular media and pop-culture narrative,
by DrScump 11y ago
<some counted him (GWB) as one of the least-talented (intellectually) Presidents the U.S. has ever seated>
That's the popular media and pop-culture narrative, but it just wasn't true. Read firsthand accounts from non-media policy experts who were there, for example...
http://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/ http://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/
Similarly, Eisenhower and Reagan were portrayed as a dottering grandfatherly types disinterested in policy during their tenure, but honest historians later gave them their due.
- Outdoorsman 11y agoThat's precisely why I used the word "some"... The questioner asked about his brother's track record, specifically the potentially negative aspects of that record...public perception, even if shaped or influenced, remains that...truth often doesn't enter into it, just as you correctly allude...thanks for your response...