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Honest Abe or Tricky Dick?


Presidential politics are on everyone's mind, especially in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  this week.

So L.A.-based CareerPath.com has developed a quiz - "The Oval Office Quiz: Dare to Discover Your Presidential Profile" - that lets users discover which U.S. president most represents their work style.

Are you Honest Abe Lincoln or Tricky Dick Nixon? Are you an orator ORATOR, practice. A good man, skillful in speaking well, and who employs a perfect eloquence to defend causes either public or private. Dupin, Profession d'Avocat, tom. 1, p. 19..
     2.
 and short-timer like William Henry Noun 1. William Henry - English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
Henry
 Harrison, or a loyalist loyalist

American colonist loyal to Britain in the American Revolution. About one-third of American colonists were loyalists, including officeholders who served the British crown, large landholders, wealthy merchants, Anglican clergy and their parishioners, and Quakers.
 like the longest-serving president Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

To find out, users answer "true" or "false" to statements such as: "I am concerned how history will remember me" and "I am known for my fine haberdashery," and multiple-choice questions such as "When speaking before an assembled group, your clothes and grooming appear: seedy, dapper Dapper

lawyer’s clerk; swindled into believing himself perfect gambler. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist]

See : Dupery
, untopped, classic or earthy?"

Fill out the questionnaire and a box will pop up describing the president you most resemble. And after you've learned your presidential style, try answering the questions with your coworkers, or better yet, your boss in mind to see if you work for FDR or Tricky Dick.
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Author:DUNPHY, LAURA
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 14, 2000
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