The importance of being curious.
Reporters covering Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. have noticed that he never asks them questions. Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist. Krugman, a liberal, is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. thinks this betrays their self-importance, which is certainly a possibility. My worry, however, is that it reflects a lack of curiosity on Dean's part. Great presidents are insatiably curious. FDR was always asking questions. And think of Jack Kennedy dealing with his greatest challenge, the Cuban missile crisis Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to , constantly probing his colleagues for information and advice. Also, it helps to like reporters, as Kennedy and FDR did, enough to take an interest in them and what they think. This affection AFFECTION, contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Techn. Diet. tends to be returned, resulting in more sympathetic coverage.
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