showy. george bush suffered from excessive. his mother lecturing him, never say i am. he didn t use the pro nonnoun i. that hurt him to get re-elected. it detracted from his presidency. eisenhower and bush had this quality of not needing to show off, of knowing themselves well enough to know that they could do the right thing and they didn t have to stand up and wave their arms. the presidency is such a lonely, lonely thing. you have to have enormous reserves of self-confidence to do it right. that is so true. eisenhower had that and george bush had that. and evan, we were talking about some presidents concerned that they didn t have a war. a glorious war to catapult them to the great list. bill clinton, we heard bill clinton fretting about this at the end of his presidency. it is safe to say that dwight d. eisenhower constantly fretted about the possibility of war. oh. he had a heart attack, a stroke. i mean he was a mess.
win, petty corruption. yeah. and so and snarky letters. let s talk about at the top of your list you have leaders of destiny, george washington, abraham lincoln, fdr followed by jefferson jackson and roosevelt. not a lot of surprises there. bottom of the list, james buchanan, franklin pierce, harold ford jr. s favorite president, andrew johnson, millhard fillmore and warren g. harding but a more fascinating group, split decision presidents and one of those split decision presidents is a president who i appreciate more every year and moving him into like the near great or great list dwight eisenhower who quietly did things for eight years that nobody seemed to recognize. my mom who was an fdr democrat, said he was lazy, stupid and just played golf all day.
night to speak with wolf blitzer which is one of the great things david brought to us along with the magic wall and so many others. he s our great innovator at cnn. exactly. i think you re going to see so much more of this. it makes enormous sense. he s just taking advantage of technology in a way that s very friendly to viewers. and that s the way it s supposed to work. all right. you have a great list. i suggest everybody check it out. rick, appreciate it. thanks for comingen. thanks so much. for more about fast company s list of the most creative names in business, check out our blog at cnn.com/ali. you want to know what innovative idea we ll look at next? tune in next week and see, as always, as we like to say, same big i time, same big i channel. that s david bohrman s son who wrote that. president obama may be on the brink of breaking the law and many in congress don t seem to care. dana bash will join us with the details next. than many other allergy medications.
necessarily pointed to something specific. what they found was, last year, they got some intelligence that al qaeda was targeting these oil and natural gas installations in the united states. what they re saying is, some of the information that they just got shows that al qaeda still has a continuing interest right now in going after some of those targets. where is this intel coming from? it s coming from that treasure trove of information that those s.e.a.l. teams hauled out of osama bin laden s compound. we don t know if it specifically came from osama bin laden s journal, but we do know it did come from the effects that were found in his compound. so whenever we hear a warning like this, you wonder is there a specific time or a date where this attack might be possible. do you know anything about that? yeah. that would be what they would call actionable intelligence. in other words, they found out that so an so may be plotting an attack on this date against this ins
yeah. he watches everyday. during the last election campaign, just the personal pelast election campaign, just the personal experience i had coming on and the rest of the day, people say, hey, i saw you on morning joe. the follow-up question, is joe really that much of a jerk in person? everyone wants to know. the answer, yes. well, listen, the list has gone to hell this year. thank you for coming on anyway. great list. we appreciate it. great issue. all right. thanks a lot, rick. time s 100 most influential people in the world. pick up a copy. up next, everyone loves raymond, repackage for a russian audience. this is hilarious, really funny.