they said they had not heard from the president but had letters suddenly delivered last week. how does this come across? well, it comes across as a pattern, part of a pattern that we have seen from the very beginning. this is what we get when we have a businessman as president, a businessman who is in the habit, the deep-seeded decades long habit of sort of what in business you call puffering. i m the biggest, i m the best, i ve done more than anybody else. i ve covered virtually all of what i was supposed to do. and then people come running behind him to sort of make it seem as if it were true. we have seen that in politics. around august they started doing that around the white house. we have done more in eight months be the prior administration did in eight years. they applied it to all kinds of things which it wasn t even remotely true and his aides had to come running from behind to make it seem as it it ffs tr