...[S]even presidents’ struggles to manage foreign and national security policy brings to mind an incident when the Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher started a rookie in center field. After the rookie misjudged several high flies and screaming liners, Durocher jerked him out and took the position himself, but then misplayed several easy chances. Durocher charged into the dugout, grabbed the rookie by the shirt and yelled, “Kid, you’ve got center field so screwed up, now no one can play it.”
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
All screwed up?
From Gary Hart's review of Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, by Peter W. Rodman, in the January 18, 2009 New York Times Book Review:
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American foreign policy,
Leo Durocher
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