Further Perils of Jogging

David Frum reads Robert Draper’s Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, and reports [emphasis added]:

If he [Bush] has anything more to say, it will  have to wait for later. But my guess is that he has nothing to say. What Ulysses S. Grant said of himself is true of George W. Bush: He is a verb. He is able to do, to be, and to suffer. He cannot analyze or explain. His actions must be judged by results; any mysteries in the record will be clarified, to the extent they ever are, by the memoirs of his subordinates and the opening of the administration archives after the fact. This does not mean that Draper’s book lacks interest. On the contrary, it is very interesting, and especially interesting on the president’s early life and his governorship… Draper captures some of the darker sides of the president’s personality: his occasional petulance, his sometimes disdainful treatment of those who work for him, his sometimes excessive emphasis on his exercise program to the exclusion of other responsibilities.