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“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers,” said Truman…

• defrost 1y ago
  Apparently not all 'leaders' ... “He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate.” ~ Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/america...
  • croisillon 1y ago
    from his vocabulary you can tell he's at most semi-­literate
    • psunavy03 1y ago
      I think that's a sign of senility more than anything else. There's been articles which show clips of his speech in the 1980s and 1990s. His vocabulary was much more extensive, and he used more complex sentences than the word salad he spews out these days.
• moffkalast 1y ago
  "I was elected to lead, not to read"