What makes a great politician?

[David Lockmiller]

(01-02-2018 04:50 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  How then did he cope and have a "healthy ego" (and I agree he did have one, in my definition of those words) ?

I think of a "healthy ego" like a well-built and excellently-designed sailing vessel in tremendously storm-battered waters. Sometimes, just staying afloat is quite an accomplishment.

I remember reading a Lincoln story by Stoddard in which Stoddard was working for a long period of time someplace in the White House and he could hear Lincoln endlessly pacing the floor above him in contemplation of some problem. Stoddard finished his work and left, but the last thing that he heard were the pacing footsteps of President Lincoln. Over the years of the Civil War, President Lincoln endured many a storm.