But when TR was elected President he had already been President - as had Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson for that matter.
(which means that if Bush's detractors and the people who tout experience are correct we should be electing Dick Cheney <s> )
>That's the excellent point that doesn't seem to be recognized enough. No matter what their experience and background are, NOBODY starts that job with experience No one. General experience may be an advantage. (Or it may not; you know the saying about some people having 10 years of experience and others having 1 year's experience 10 times). But they haven't been President.
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>A corollary is they almost never get to work on what they intended to work on. Events always intrude.
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>>In fairness, when Teddy Roosevelt was elected President he did have experience ... being President ! <s>
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
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