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The Admiral asked the young officer if he had given his best effort in his studies at the Naval Academy. Though he graduated fifty-ninth in a class of eight hundred and twenty, he instinctively knew he could have done better. “No, sir, I didn’t always do my best.” The Admiral followed up with this question: “Why not?” Silence, conversation over. Those two words became a game changer in the young man’s life. The young naval officer? Our thirty-ninth president, Jimmy…