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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: Re: reagan's weekends
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 12:25:44 EDT
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> > In the case of Reagan, it may not make any difference at all where or how he
> > spends his weekends -- fact is, even when he's in Washington he's only a
> > part-time President.  He's the only President in modern U.S. history who
> > watches soap operas, takes long afternoon naps and has important decisions
> > presented to him by his staff as multiple-choice problems.
> > 
> 
> Is this different from many CEO's?  Most of them spend a lot of time
> outside the sompany, doing PR and going to high-society events, and
> the vice presidents and senior executives run the company on the inside.
> Reagan does the PR (and he does it effectively).  How many of you
> work for companies in which the CEO does the analysis for policy
> decisions?

I never thought I would come to the defense of corporate fat cats.
The truth is these guys really are workaholics (who wouldn't be for
800K+ a year!) who don't watch soap operas, take long naps or require
decisions to be presented to them in a format resembling a third grade
science quiz. Sure they get to tool around in Lear jets, be chaufered
around town, see and be seen by all those important, but for what it's
worth they put a lot more effort into what they do than Ronnie does.

I'm not complaining. The less Ronnie accomplishes, the better off
this country and the world are.

-todd jones