Old Boss. New Boss. (Part Deux)

"A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease," Washington Post, July 2, 2007 [1]

Bush can seem disengaged. When he flew to New York to visit a Harlem school and promote his education program, he brought along New York congressmen on Air Force One, including Democrat Charles B. Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The White House was in the midst of tough negotiations with Rangel over trade pacts. But Bush did not try to cut a deal with Rangel, chatting instead about baseball. "He talked a lot about the Rangers," Rangel said. "I didn't know what the hell he was talking about."

"Dawn at Memorial: Nixon, Youths Talk," Washington Post, May 10, 1970 [2]:

"I hope it was because he was tired, but most of what he was saying was absurd," said Joan Pelletier, also of Syracuse University. "Here we had come from a university's that's completely uptight, on strike, and when we told him where we were from, he talked about the football team. And when someone said he was from California, he talked about surfing."