one thing that shouldn't be surprising but is to me is that presidents are influenced by the same middlebrow stuff everyone else is (george bush and the flu book, obama and the gawande mcallen texas article), they're not acting on secret, special information we can't access
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yes but no President has yet taken Jack Kirby seriously (which might explain a lot of our problems now that I think of it)
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Please expand on your comment re: guns of august
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JFK had recently read The Guns of August at the time of The Cuban Missile Crisis, and it informed his thinking on how to avoid falling into a war noone really wanted.
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