历史真是充满巧合。今天继任总统的老船,和他偶像里根的名字只差一个字母。六六三十六年,恰好是“From
Ronald to
Donald”。”R”和”D”,则恰好是美国两党的首字母。也许正是因为这个”D”,民主党也不把老船当外人,“老船身份一块砖,哪里需要哪里搬”,选举前说他是民主党的卧底,当选后又成了俄罗斯间谍——“民主”的阴谋论,真的是很不一般。:)
早在1980年代,小船就是老里的粉,并在1987年开进白宫,见了老里,有照片为证。接见的原因,不知是不是小船当选了“全国十大杰出青年”?:)但1986年小船确实干了件很为纽约人称道的事情——他接手了一项2年半都没能完成的烂尾溜冰场工程,只用了3个月就完成了建设,并且节省了75万美元的预算(总预算195万),第一年的收入全部捐给了慈善机构。这也是老船竞选中常提到的“under
budget, ahead of time”的底气所在——自己做到过,才有底气说。
"Leadership is not magnetic
personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not
'making friends and influencing people'—that is flattery.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the
raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the
building of a personality beyond its normal
limitations."~Peter F. Drucker
而老船今天的演讲中,俺最喜欢的是这句话:
“We will no longer accept
politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining,
but never doing anything about it.
The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of
action.”