How Good Are Experienced Presidents?

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The Presidents (way) under the line might be regarded as overperformers. They didn’t have much experience going into office, but did pretty well once there. The ones (way) above the line had lots of experience but were not good Presidents.

The two Bushes and Clinton are not shown since it is much too early to draw historical judgments on them. One needs a very vivid imagination to perceive the data points falling along the blue line. There does not appear to be any relation between experience and greatness.

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Sit-down strategy targets transients

LA JOLLA – Esther Viti isn’t about to stand by and watch transients take over public benches along the streets of her beloved La Jolla.
She’s prepared to sit on it. Literally.

Viti wants to recruit volunteers to sit on benches in La Jolla’s business district so the homeless will have to keep on walking.

“Right now, a bum can sit out in front of a store, and they can do it all day, day after day,” she said.

Viti oversees a program sponsored by Promote La Jolla, a nonprofit merchants association, that coordinates the placement of benches donated by the public. Some donors become upset when they see transients passed out on benches they’ve dedicated to a loved one, Viti said.

Deborah Marengo, president of Promote La Jolla, said merchants and residents alike are concerned by what they see as a growing number of homeless in La Jolla.

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