A Great Influence in Building Coalition

I heard this today at lunch: Ninety days after Desert Storm, the New York Times described how the original international coalition had been put together by President Bush the Elder. The secret? All the international leaders he'd met during his years of government service. But there's more. He had maintained those relationships through thank-you notes he wrote after every meeting and conversation. Where did he learn this? From his mother who taught him at a very young age to write thank-you notes for everything. The point? A mother's influence may have been one of the greatest weapons in the Desert Storm war.