And though Pfiffner says maintaining this schedule is probably impossible, he says he feels it is a "healthy tendency."
"You can get burned out and your judgment is affected," he says. "It is a good example he sets through exercise."
And the same charm that Bush uses to kick people out so that he can go to bed, professors say, is useful in creating political capital in Washington.
"Bush tries to be likeable to his opponents as individuals while hitting the opposition as a group hard," Mills says. "This was Reagan's approach, and it worked for him beautifully in Washington. I think Bush is simply copying it."
Other professors say courting the adversary in business is not typical.
"Sometimes reaching out to the opposition is against the law in business," Assistant Professor of Business Administration Thomas Eisenmann says.
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