Sacking the president isn't the panacea for what ails the Red Cross.

It's hugely embarrassing for the sector, ... I don't believe there is any malfeasance here. But . . . the notion that the Red Cross simply cannot track where the money is going feeds into this growing concern that charities cannot be trusted to spend their money wisely.

If you don't believe what the president believes or more generally what the White House believes, you're not going to get a second look and that narrows the pool to a very small number of people,

The person at the top matters most. You can shuffle the deck, but the president is the ace of spades, and he's not going to change.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.