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Ronald Reagan

FDR

  • People expected Reagan, as a president, to live up to the heroic characters he portrayed in movies
  • This personality didn't come across while in office, and he had to put on a persona

Active Positive

  • His personality caused him to approach the presidency with enthusiasm and a drive to lead and succeed.
  • he was very proactive in creating jobs after the great depression and that led to the development of the New Deal and his great success.

Qualities

most likely to enjoy Presidential success

  • readiness to act
  • high optimism
  • overall fondness of the presidency

Examples

  • FDR
  • Harry S. Truman
  • JFK
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Gerald Ford

Passive Positive

Qualities

  • low self-esteem, compensated by an ingratiating personality
  • superficially optimistic
  • has a desire to please

Barack Obama

Examples

  • William Howard Taft
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Warren G. Harding
  • After looking at Barber's Model we decided that Obama would be a passive-positive president
  • He obviously has a desire to please
  • His Obama-care plan is a great example of this

Barber believed that personality played a huge role in determining whether a President will succeed or fail in office

The James David Barber Model

  • Perspective has a lot to do with what category you would place a certain President in
  • If the person is in a different party than you, you are more likely going to see them in more of a negative light
  • If you like a candidate as a person, you will probably see them as a positive personality

Meredith, Katy, Margaret, and Jennifer

This model is outlined in the book, The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House.

Barber believes that Presidents can be categorized as having "positive" or "negative" attitudes, and as being "active" or "passive."

  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

Active Negative

Qualities

Examples

  • lack of joy after deriving much effort on tasks
  • aggressive
  • highly rigid
  • having a general view of power as a means to self-realization

Examples

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Richard Nixon
  • strong sense of duty
  • low self-esteem compensated by service towards others
  • an overall aversion to intense political negotiation

Qualities

Passive Negative

Richard Nixon

  • His long career as a military leader leads to his strong sense of duty
  • He was a really aggressive President
  • The majority of laws passed during his presidency had to do with war and service to others
  • His Active Negative attitude make him prone to failure
  • His aggressive nature make him do whatever was necessary to be re-elected
  • Example: Watergate

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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