13 minute read. By Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University and Alex Waddan, University of Leicester
"Obama doesn’t like conflict. He has a smooth manner and an agreeable manner and a decent disposition. I think if you tell young people to look at Obama as an ideal of a president – you know, he looks like a president. He’s an admirable sort of model. But his temperament was really better for a president in peaceful times, when there was comity between the parties," says David Bromwich, Yale University (Oct. 16th, 2019)