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Missed the boat. >> couple weeks ago he was going to be jimmy carter, and then health care passed. he has a whole lineup of things he wants to do, including financial deregulation, energy policy. he could go and swing and run around the bases this whole first year. basically he said, you know what? this is what i said i was going to do. i did it and now vote for me. >> the flip side of accomplishment -- obviously presidents come to accomplish things. ultimately taking the measure of him as a leader, something you've done in the course of the work on the book, what have we learned about barack ...

Missed the boat. >> couple weeks ago he was going to be jimmy carter, and then health care passed. he has a whole lineup of things he wants to do, including financial deregulation, energy policy. he could go and swing and run around the bases this whole first year. basically he said, you know what? this is what i said i was going to do. i did it and now vote for me. >> the flip side of accomplishment -- obviously presidents come to accomplish things. ultimately taking the measure of him as a leader, something you've done in the course of the work on the book, what have we learned about barack ...

Deep pragmatist, his style is conciliation. his style is to put his arms around as many people as possible and try to bring them to a compromise. we saw that in the health care situation. the question is, will it apply in some of these other big questions that you raise, like nuclear iran. i don't think putting your arms around mahmoud ahmadinejad is going to work. he has to get the u.n. on board. take global warming. that's a situation that imperils us all in a serious way, and we have to get international cooperation on an unprecedented level in order to take the measures necessary to revers...