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The five presidents recommend launching their proposed agenda to reinvigorate integration only after 2017.
And without true political unification, efforts to pursue the rest of the presidents’ plan, including the transfer of fiscal competencies to the European level, would carry serious risks.
Fiscal integration is high on the five presidents’ agenda.
The presidents insist that this “would not mean centralization of all aspects of revenue and expenditure policy,” with member states continuing to decide on taxation and the allocation of budgetary expenditures.
Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao were less emperors than primi inter pares.
Yet no one thought much about it when American presidents of different faiths swore their oath of office to God and country.
Lee’s recent behavior may also reflect his fear that he could suffer a fate similar to that of past South Korean presidents.
Obama is unlikely to find much refuge from domestic struggles in the last redoubt of previous lame-duck presidents: foreign policy.
Kashkari is just one of 12 presidents of regional Federal Reserve Banks.
But Barack Obama’s administration apparently has concluded that Arab monarchs are likely to survive, whereas Arab presidents are more likely to fall, and that it is acceptable for the United States to continue to coddle tyrannical kings.
However, on financial matters (in particular the distribution of profits and losses), the voting rules are different: the Executive Board does not participate and the votes of the national central bank presidents in the Governing Council are weighted by their respective capital shares.
The world’s governments must be able to trade horses if pandas and presidents are to do more than smile.
Beyond Europe, Brexit would estrange the UK from the United States, where presidents from both major parties, beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower (who also served as NATO’s first Supreme Commander), have touted European integration.
In doing so, he would raise the bar for future Kenyan presidents.
The two presidents’ approach to relieving trade tensions does have ample precedent, but such episodes provide little grounds for hope.
Presidents who followed policies of retrenchment since the end of World War II have included Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and now Obama.
The EITC has bipartisan support; it was enacted under President Gerald Ford, and has been expanded under Republican and Democratic presidents alike: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
In fact, the CIA was designed to avoid genuine democratic oversight and provide presidents with “plausible deniability.”
Viewed through the lens of history, the main job of US presidents is to be mature and wise enough to stand up to the permanent war machine.
As a result, the United States will no longer play the leading international role that has defined its foreign policy for three quarters of a century, under Democratic and Republican presidents alike.
And savvy Bank presidents have known that the best way to deflect political pressure is to add yet more bells and whistles – especially when they are visible and loud.
To paraphrase the comedian Fred Allen, “On ships they call them barnacles; at the World Bank, they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.”
Mean-spirited and partisan, Dick Cheney was one of America’s most powerful vice presidents.
This time, the countries’ presidents will meet at a time of intensive American attention to the US-China trade balance and other economic issues, such as protection of intellectual property rights.
Indeed, Sino-US interaction has been so strong that the two presidents met five times last year.
Kenyan presidents, by contrast, traveled to China just six times during the same period, most recently in May 2017.
In fact, in the twentieth century, US presidents who pursued transformational foreign policies were neither more effective nor more ethical.
Most presidents hope to attach some special meaning to their time in office.
The elements of an eventual settlement have been known for years: the creation of a viable Palestinian state – a goal endorsed by the last two US presidents – together with secure borders for Israel, some arrangement on Jerusalem, and an economic package.
American presidents since Harry Truman, the first world leader to recognize Israel in 1948 (against the advice of then Secretary of State General George C. Marshall), have embodied in varying degrees either the emotional or the realpolitik aspect – some represented both – of the relationship.
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