Daily Routines

Bernard Tschumi

Morning routine: Because of the travel, I always have a week when I am really waking up early. I get up and start to work very quietly. I make the coffee. Then have breakfast. I get to the office before 9 a.m.

Evening routine: My wife and I will watch political shows. We are political junkies. We will eat while watching Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and end with Stephen Colbert's program on Comedy Central. Then to bed.

Procrastination technique: I work best either under pressure or by emptying my brain over the weekend. That blank state is helpful. It is like an athlete before a competition.

The New York Times Magazine, June 8, 2008

George W. Bush

Mr. Bush has always been an early-to-bed, early-to-rise kind of guy, and he typically arrives at the Oval Office by 6:45 a.m., Ms. Perino said, for briefings from his national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, and chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten. He holds regular secure video-conferences with various world leaders, among them the president of Afghanistan and the prime minister of Iraq.

As he has since the beginning of his presidency, Mr. Bush still slips away each day for a workout, and has lunch with Vice President Dick Cheney once a week. On other days, he might lunch with former aides (Dan Bartlett, the former counselor to the president, and Karl Rove, the political strategist, sometimes drop in) or Cabinet members like Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, though according to Ms. Perino, the president does not tarry.

“He’s a fast eater – always ready to get back to work,” she said.

The New York Times, June 6, 2008