I'm a baseball freak.

I'm a baseball freak.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.