https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/08/its-time-to-recognize-bush-41-as-the-great-foreign-policy-president-he-was/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 03:38:31 -0400<![CDATA[Most important: Managing change is more important than provoking it, and one manages change best by concentrating on people rather than on ideas. This is why Bush was so unpopular with the media and the intellectual classes while he was president: They wanted action, ideas, brilliant abstractions; whereas he focused on lots of personal phone calls to world leaders even when there was no crisis, so when a crisis came he had them in his pocket.]]>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:20:38 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/08/its-time-to-recognize-bush-41-as-the-great-foreign-policy-president-he-was-n99971