A President's Leadership Style...but whom?

Thought I'd play alittle presidential trivia today.

Which U.S. President's leadership style was characterized as described below:

[His] focus was on institutional reforms that would produce profound results over time. He was impatient; he knew he had a limited time in office and a finite amount of [political] capital, and he wanted to spend both doing big things.

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[*]emphasis by poster

He's not in the poll and I'm showing my age by picking Lyndon B. Johnson.

I also think that Reagan and Clinton were visionary although I certainly could find flaws with either one.

Since I can't run for POTUS, you'll never get a perfect President.

Each does, and my memory fades...but each had some, and I know I am forgetting examples from each of them.

Reagan: SDI (and also his nuclear free world proposition)
Bush Sr: New World Order (not the spooky kind)
Clinton: Furthering globalization
George W. Bush: Education reform, social security reforms, and pursuit of democratic change in the Middle East.

I know the poll question is presented differently from how the OP question is phrased, but that's because I had limited space in which to ask the question while constructing the poll.

Ignore the "poll" question and focus on the question asked in the thread's OP.

[His] focus was on institutional reforms that would produce profound results over time. He was impatient; he knew he had a limited time in office and a finite amount of [political] capital, and he wanted to spend both doing big things.

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Clinton was close but Barack Obama is the answer.

Bee

Bettina said:

Clinton was close but Barack Obama is the answer.

Bee

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You would be half-right.

Although President Obama did characterize the first two-years of his presidency this way (i.e., the importance of maximizing his political capital within the first 2-years of his presidency in order to do big things before the makeup of Congress changed during the mid-term elections), it's not exactly the answer I was looking for. But you are correct; he did characterize his presidency in this way.

What I was looking for was who made such a characterization on behalf of a sitting President?

The answer is: George W. Bush

Karl Rove characterized Bush's leadership style in this manner per his book, "Courage and Consequence". (See page 108)