"We now expect a much more personable person in the White House," said Fred Greenstein, a professor of history at Princeton University.
Bill Walsh was such a personable person.
His top assistant, Mr. Glauber, a professor on leave from the Harvard Business School, is personable and has few peers as an expert on banking laws, but he has little background in politics or lobbying.
He was personable, easy to talk to, an excellent student, said his professors at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, some 130 miles south of here, where he was on his way to receiving a master's degree in social work.
He also served as a research assistant for Chris Larrison, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, who said he saw him as an appealing, personable student and a hard worker.
Yet the former comic's simple message, personable manner and image as an untainted newcomer have resonated with voters, said Mike Allison, associate professor of political science at the University of Scranton.
He had received glowing letters of recommendation both from a psychology professor at the University of Washington, where he was an undergraduate ("he is exceedingly bright, personable, highly motivated, and conscientious"), and from the Republican governor of Washington, Dan Evans, for whom he worked.
Handsome and personable, dressed informally and regularly consulting a binder of notes, he has the air of a visiting professor not yet at ease in front of the classroom.
The professor does not know why the appointment was made, but remembers the student as being intelligent and personable, and thinks that perhaps it is the same student who borrowed the missing manuscript.
"He was super personable.
