As for Bush himself, Frum is forthright about the president's "many faults," among them that he is "often uncurious and as a result ill informed".
Trump's first national-security adviser, General Michael Flynn, heard the gong after twenty-four days on the job a record for brevity as investigators pursued suspicions of Russian interference in the Presidential election; it came out that Flynn hadn't been forthright with Vice-President Mike Pence, among others, about the nature of his discussions with a Russian diplomat.
Black congressman Charlie Rangel is forthright: "Having a black president has not solved the problem at all....the colour of one's skin determines how lives are going to be and whether they live at all".
Meanwhile Fox News host and commentator Howard Kurtz writes admiringly about the president's forthright manner.
Yet he never rose to those leaders' defense by having a forthright conversation with the president to call out this conduct.
Obama's plan also funds natural gas research, furthering the president's forthright support of an "all of the above" energy strategy and "responsibly tapping" U.S. natural gas reserves.
From New Delhi he bombarded the president with astonishingly forthright letters about economic and foreign policy.
Four days after Mr Calderón's cautious call for debate, Vicente Fox, his predecessor as president, issued a forthright demand for the legalisation of the production, sale and distribution of all drugs.
The Human Rights Commission president delivered a forthright speech on Friday in which she criticised the major political parties for teaming up to pass "scores of laws" over the past 15 years that threatened fundamental rights and freedoms.
Dickson, the athletic director, and Scott Cowen, the university president, were grimly forthright in what they told the athletes: If you are afraid of adversity, they said, this is probably not the right place.
