Awfully strange situation.
Humble on the campaign trail, but once in office, Presidents have been known to use coercive power.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson once told a White House staffer, “Just you remember this.
There’s only two kinds at the White house. There’s elephants and there’s ants. And I’m the only elephant.”
SOURCE Hughes, R., Ginnet, R., & Curphy, G. (1995). Power, influence and influence tactics.
From J. T. Wren (Ed.), The Leader's Companion, (p. 345). New York: Free Press.
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SCHAUDENFREUD LBJ met a most ignominious end via the Vietnam conflict......he filled out the assassinated
JFK's term, but public sentiment turned against LBJ, and caused him to drop out of the running for reelection.