I don't want to be a self-serving fellow, but I have never used my position as President to personally denigrate somebody.
From The Price of Loyalty:
"Go get me Andy Card," Bush said to one of the Secret Service agents. Card, the designee as chief of staff, entered from an adjoining room . . . Bush looked impatiently at Card, hard-eyed. "You're the chief of staff. You think you're up to getting us some cheeseburgers?"
Card nodded. No one laughed. He all but raced out of the room.
From Salon:
Bush's deployed his fetish for punctuality as a punitive weapon. When Colin Powell was several minutes late to a Cabinet meeting, Bush ordered that the door to the Cabinet Room be locked.
(I recommend reading the entire transcript. After all, you won't have President Dry Drunk to kick around anymore.)
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