Non-ivy-intellectual presidents like Lincoln.

But, perhaps, on the stage of non-ivy-intellectual presidents like Lincoln.  "There's nobody out there, except for Sarah Palin, who can absolutely dominate the stage, and she can't stand on the intellectual stage with Obama," http://wapo.st/fSOwsj
Non-ivy-intellectual knew something his State Dept. did not, so with tears streaming down the faces of Mexican cadets at attention: "On 5 March 1947, a few months before the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Chapultepec, U.S. President Harry S. Truman placed a wreath at the monument." http://bit.ly/eCP6ca and Mexicans have favorable memories of Truman.
"One hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness wiped out by [one non-ivy-intellectual] in one minute." http://bit.ly/eM5LNF