Every president has one of these learning moments that can propel him from routine governing to decisive leadership.
And many just shift routine governing duties off of Trump's desk.
TOWARDS the end of 2003 and early in 2004 China's most senior leaders put aside the routine of governing 1.3 billion people to spend a couple of afternoons studying the rise of great powers.
All of us have our little quirks, a set of routines that govern our lives: making the morning coffee just so, or taking the same number of steps from the apartment to the elevator.
He does not follow the fashionable view that Hitler was a weak dictator, who was unable to rein in the growing radicalisation of the system and with little interest in the routines of governing.
Nucleation routines are governed by a novel implementation of the classical nucleation theory in a general phase-field code.
The problem, they say, is the system of peacetime regulations governing routine federal contracts that is being applied in the chaos facing the reconstruction efforts.
Within 24 hours of arrival, a military-base routine kicked in, governed by daylight hours, duty groups (Boat, Grounds, Kitchen, Tanks), Monday Camp Clean, Wednesday Weeklies (stores, data input, boat logs) and up to three research dives a day.
The law remains generally popular in the state but has drawn criticism from civil rights groups, church leaders, local law enforcement officials, state business groups and some Alabama residents who complain of the new rules governing routine transactions.
Six months after a budget stand-off that came within minutes of shutting the federal government, and barely eight weeks after Congress came within a whisker of defaulting on the nation's debts, the supposedly routine business of governing the US is once again being threatened by political wrangling.
