He has proof of what happens if action is not bold and persistent.
(Lockett claimed that Pemberton was so "bold and persistent" with Grant because the Confederates had broken the code he used to communicate with Admiral David Dixon Porter out on the Mississippi River by relying "on the principle of Poe's 'Gold Bug'" short story about cryptography).
His advice is like everything else in life: Be bold and persistent.
He is direct, bold, and persistent.
Be strong, bold, assertive and persistent in your tries.
And this is troubling at a moment in time when this uniquely complex and multilayered relationship simultaneously experiences bold new opportunities and persistent challenges, not least amongst the latter the perilous signs of nativist populism tainted with anti-Mexicanism in the U.S. campaign trail.
We must be bold, proactive, positive, passionate, and persistent.
The difference boils down to this: Bold, persistent experimentation vs. bold persistence.
These are the skills - making political moves and having the capacity and courage for bold, persistent experimentation - an effective president will need.
During the terrible Depression that began eight decades ago this week, Franklin Roosevelt called for "bold, persistent experimentation" and said, "It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
With tax policy, federal spending, social insurance, and the national debt ceiling being held hostage to radical right-wing Tea Party demands, it is time for what presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt called "bold, persistent experimentation" and executive action to solve the economic crisis facing the nation.
