约翰·肯尼迪在就任总统职务初期,曾在白宫款待一群企业家,当时,在座的企业家之一直言不讳地告诉他,美国需要一个“骑马的人”。肯尼迪用一番雄辩说得此人哑口无言。他说,和平时期、即使是冷战时期的领导权,通过骑在对手头上来行使是不妥当的。然而,人们仍坚持用战时模式确定伟大的领导人。最近,当里斯-莫格(W.Ress-Mogg)在《泰晤士报》上谴责约翰·梅杰缺乏领导才能时,用来鞭策这位首相的 John F. Kennedy hosted a group of entrepreneurs at the White House during his initial presidency, when one of the entrepreneurs present outspokenly told him that the United States needed a “horse-riding man.” Kennedy used this eloquence to say that he was speechless. He said that in peacetime even in the leadership of the Cold War, exercising by rivalry is not proper. However, people still insist on using wartime models to identify great leaders. Recently, when W.Ress-Mogg condemned John Mayer’s lack of leadership in the Times, he used it to spur the prime minister