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Indeed, the Constitutional Council made its assessments a priori, one month after adoption of the law, and only four officials could initiate a review: the president, the prime minister, and the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate.
Presidents Xi and Obama subsequently signed a communiqué in 2013 renouncing such cyber theft.
For reasons that are now obscure, there is an unwritten rule that Commission presidents must be drawn from the ranks of past or current prime ministers.
Obama would add $6.5 trillion to the United States’ national debt, more than all previous presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush, combined.
Trump asserts that he was acting well within his authority, because US presidents can declassify almost anything they want.
And many excellent political leaders – for example, George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower, among US presidents – have not been intellectuals.
Like most recent American presidents, Obama campaigned on a promise to work with his political opponents for the greater good of the country.
All of these elements of diplomatic protocol are familiar, but Lee’s visit carried with it something more: it was also a celebration of the relationship that the two presidents – and their predecessors – have forged to make the South Korean-US partnership one of the strongest in the world, rivaling any bilateral relationship that the US has in Europe or elsewhere.
When American and South Korean presidents sit together, they do not just discuss the Korean peninsula or northeast Asia; increasingly, their discussions take on a global character and reach.
Several of America’s recent presidents have done well at establishing personal relationships with foreign leaders.
One wonders whether future US presidents and vice presidents will be given the time and space needed to develop the strong personal relationships with other world leaders on which an effective foreign policy depends.
After WWII the only two incumbent presidents not reelected were Carter in 1980, who ran in the middle of a recession, and Bush (the father) in 1992, who paid for mediocre economic growth in 1990-1992.
Eisenhower in 1956, Johnson in 1964, Reagan in 1984, Bush in 1990, and Clinton 1996 (all incumbent presidents or vice presidents) with an economy in good shape would have won even if they hadn’t opened their mouth for the whole electoral campaign.
Kim might find in Trump – the first US president to meet with a North Korean leader (a gift to Kim before talks even begin) – a kindred spirit, at least compared to previous US presidents.
The vast sums accumulated by former presidents Chun Doo Hwan (who amassed a $900 million slush fund) and Roh Dae Woo (who amassed $600 million from the business community) were but the tip of an iceberg of corruption and inefficiency that saturated both politics and the economy.
Here, the decision to pardon former presidents Chun and Roh certainly is a good augury for unity.
In the eyes of a majority of French citizens, for whom presidents are “elected monarchs,” Sarkozy has “de-sacralized” the presidency.
Rather than providing the breakthrough for which many had hoped, it demonstrated that Obama – unlike other second-term US presidents, who have staked their legacies on foreign policy – is interested primarily in securing a domestic legacy.
Meanwhile, Italy’s top bureaucrats are the highest paid in history, according to OECD data, with several retired officials drawing larger pensions than former US presidents receive.
Just as US presidents treat the Middle East as America's gasoline station, they treat the Andean countries not as home to 130 million poor and struggling people, but, first and foremost, as suppliers of cocaine.
An increasing number of Latin American countries have elected left-wing presidents who criticize market reforms and globalization.
In fact, the French are extremely frustrated with their country’s politics, particularly with their presidents.
At the US Federal Reserve, decisions are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), whose members – seven governors and five presidents of the Fed’s regional reserve banks – enjoy varying degrees of independence.
In anglophone countries, presidents and prime ministers, not to mention some leading central bankers, boasted of superior financial systems that were the envy of the world.
The most efficient way for Xi to secure the PLA’s loyalty is to replace its top generals – most of whom were promoted by previous presidents – with his own supporters.
In 1947, however, following President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election to four terms in office, Congress enacted the Twenty-Second Amendment to the US Constitution; since its ratification in 1951, US presidents have been limited to two four-year terms.
But most new presidents make significant blunders at the start, and now there are more starts.
Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush sought the same goal.
For decades, successive US presidents have understood that the careful management of the bilateral relationship with China is vital to America’s national interests.
Hostility toward previous US presidents is a must as well.
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