This is a common story that many personal observers have told about Mr. Bush and other presidents, or CEOs. See, for example, http://theamericanscholar.org/dub

This is a common story that many personal observers have told about Mr. Bush and other presidents, or CEOs. See, for example, http://theamericanscholar.org/dubya-and-me/ http://theamericanscholar.org/dubya-and-me/ as a story from another observer about Mr. Bush. I remember a similar story about Bill Clinton, and really, anyone who has watched the Frost/Nixon tapes (not the movie) realizes how fiercely intelligent Nixon was, even if he didn't come across the best. Then there's Steve Yegge's ( https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzVeRq https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... ) comments about Jeff Bezos and Joel Spolsky's ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html ) about meetings at Microsoft when Bill Gates was heavily involved. I also have a friend who worked briefly as a speechwriter for the president of a Central Asian country, and he has said that before he went to work for the Palace, he thought that all of the people there were just lazy, unintelligent, corrupt, and didn't do anything. When he got there, he realized that they were some of the hardest working, smartest, and least corrupt people there. I think that my point (and the point the author is trying to make) is that people in positions of high power are usually smarter and usually understand more than we who are outside that position and outside those corridors think that they do. I think anecdotes like the ones linked above go to prove that.