Peter Baker of the New York Times writes that President Obama is doing things differently in his second term.  The president is operating behind the scenes and employing stealth rather than public persuasion in the:

It must be reassuring for the president and his vassals to imagine that it is that easy.  That Eisenhower’s methods can be copied and his accomplishments, duplicated.  For one thing, the essence of Eisenhower’s genius was that he played it so close that it was not until he was long out of office that anyone realized what he had been up to and came to admire his skills the way that Murray Kempton did, when in 1967, he wrote (in Esquire) that:

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