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President Johnson: Powerful Or Successful?
Tearing-it is time to say our final goodbyes to the 44th president and his family as they continue to journey down the road of success.
From what I have gathered from the reading of your forum, President Johnson seems to be more self controlling than demanding and arrogant. Sometimes peoples in leadership aim for effort rather than perfection because they tend to focus more on the less importance rather than the primarily importances; however the end result causes them to lose out because of their ethic attempt of failure for not trying. It is okay to high self confident, but not too much confident.
For instance, like President Obama his leadership has the ability to influence others but something people cannot distinguish it because they

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