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  • Donald Trump used to brag to his executives that he had never read a book the whole way through. “To govern a nation of 320 million people, Trump will have to absorb enormous amounts of information about issues he has never confronted and controversies that blow up in moments. His former executives say that's something he does well. ‘He is a quick study,’ said Barbara Res, who spent 18 years as Trump's top construction executive. ‘You don't have to give him a long story. He picks it right up.’ But the Washington bureaucracy and Congress will have to get accustomed to a president who can't stand long meetings and has little patience for complexity, according to Trump's aides through the years. ‘He'll have someone read the reports for him and give them to him orally, real short,’ Res said. ‘He brags that he's never read a book all the way through. He doesn't have the patience to sit in meetings. We always had a hard time keeping his attention during the prep for a deposition or something like that. The flip side is that he can scan something and get it quickly.’” (Washington Post, November 11, 2016)