Washington, Jan. 15 : In an article for the Washington Post, noted journalist Bob Woodward says that there is actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush.

Having written four books on Bush, totaling 1,727 pages, Woodward says that there are actually ten lessons that Obama can take from his predecessor's eight-year-long presidency.

1. Presidents set the tone. Don''t be passive or tolerate virulent divisions.