Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower was the general of the allied troops in Europe during the World War. One of the brilliant things about him was that he was fantastic at holding news conferences. Whenever a question was asked, he would have all the data, encapsulated in two-three very elegant sentences. But when he became the President, people found that he got very negative press because most of the press people felt that this guy was incoherent. He never listened to any questions. You asked him one thing and he went off on a tangent on some thing else. This surprised many people.