I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
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The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.
Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.
Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.
There are just some things about being president that are difficult.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
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