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From: kurtzman@uscvax.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: reagan's weekends
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 15:23:11 EDT
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> > > > >> What difference does it make where any President spends his
> > > > >> weekends?  Or how many, for that matter.
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > Yes it is different. I think you will find that CEOs spend a great
> > deal of their time on company business. The work may look different (eg
> > more glamorous, less tedious) but I think you will find most CEOs are on
> > top of the major issues in their company's. You will also find the CEOs
> > reading the analyses prepared for them. The CEO can trust an underling to
> > make a decision, but the CEO is responsible for its adoption. Reagan, on
> > the other hand, does not take responsibility for his actions. The closest
> > he has come to it is to say something of the sort "one of my aids did it
> > so I take responsibility". What that amounts to is a nice way to pay lip
> > service to the Truman notion of "the buck stops here" while passing the
> > buck along.
> > 
> Um, is that why CEOs love the Concord?  They can breakfast in New York, and
> have supper in London, that is unless they're having a round of golf that
> day.  Have a perfectly marvlous day, dalling.  See you on the courts at
> 5-ish.     

What you seem to be describing is the idle rich, not a CEO.