"Incumbent presidents sometimes avoid contact with their predecessors because they don't want to be tarnished by past errors and seem insecure in their own judgments. But experts say misplaced pride should not keep Obama from using his predecessors to help him govern. It's been done before. John F. Kennedy famously asked Dwight Eisenhower, his seasoned predecessor and a former general, for guidance and support after the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, and Ike obliged. . ."
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