Ron Suskind Quotes
There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was not fully informed of the flow of events and, in some cases, where policies were going in the White House.
Suskind, Ron. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. Harper, 2011.
See {626594} for Polk’s negative view of delegation of any authority or responsibility.
He was referring to the Controversial regulations issued in the 2nd week of the Truimp Administration.. It was the first acttion by President Trump that involved managment and operation of something. It was very badly handled where the epople who had to impliment it in many cases didn't have the same interpretation as the White House. And then the White hosue reversed their interpretation of various aspects when they realized that there were some unanticipated consequences. Not all the government employees agreed with the policy and the usual coordination throughout the government and there was no oppoprtunty for the middle managers to lead their subordinates in implementing the policy. As Baker observed, Government is very different from business and Trump never had any business experience. In American history, there had only been one other President was a wealthy and successful businessman--Herbert Hoover--and he had his difficulties.
Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind is an American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000, where he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for articles that became the starting point for his first book, A Hope in the Unseen. His other books include The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World, Confidence Men, and his memoir Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism, from which he made an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated feature documentary. Suskind has written about the George W. Bush Administration, the Barack Obama Administration, and related issues of the United States' use of power.
