Katie Couric
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extemporaneous situations, you know, I think that, and so, although, sorry about our interview.
I wasn't, I wasn't interviewing you to be funny.
We were talking about sort of a serious thing about sort of the, uh, atmosphere on college campuses and, uh, universities right now.
But, um,
I don't know.
Bill Clinton, I remember he wagged his finger at me when I really challenged him about something.
And I think it really depends on the setting and the tone of the discussion that you're having.
Barack Obama is an incredibly thoughtful, professorial interview.
And I would say he's on the cooler side.
I mean, very gracious and nice, but
You don't get the sense that he's trying to please you.
And so everybody is kind of different I think.
I do think that Clinton has that emotional intelligence that really helped him connect with an audience in a way that frankly Hillary Clinton didn't have as much, right?
It is hard because there's so much pressure, I think, to be kind of affable and likable.
And yet you have to be, you know, hopefully โ well, you don't have to be apparently, but imminently qualified, right?
And so it is a very โ
very tough thing, I think, for people to navigate.
I agree with you.
I want a leader to be hyper-intelligent, experienced, cool under pressure, and have some humanity, right?
But I don't want to necessarily have a beer with the president.