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Thirty-two years and four presidents later, Barack Obama’s recent inaugural address, with its ringing endorsement of a larger role for government in addressing America’s – and the world’s – most urgent challenges, looks like it may bring down the curtain on that era.
The Philippines and Taiwan have chosen new presidents;India and Malaysia have ushered in new parliaments and prime ministers.
Incompetent leaders blame legislatures for their failures; legislators blame presidents from rival parties.
Ambitious but thwarted presidents are easily tempted to take unconstitutional measures; after all, they reason, the people elected them directly.
Nevertheless, I am encouraged by the fact that, since Mandela left office, many African presidents – including Moi and Thabo Mbeki, Mandela’s successor – have adhered to their countries’ constitutions and left office without a fight.
Presidents do make a difference, but every president operates within constraints.
And I believe that not a day passed in Wiesel’s long life as a celebrated intellectual, honored by great universities and consulted by presidents, without spending at least an hour before a page of the Talmud or the Zohar knowing that initially he would understand nothing of what he read, but that this was the price of the only true celebration.
It has helped to shape the foreign policies of most US presidents ever since – until Trump.
As a result, the smiling presidents and prime ministers could afford to be more diplomatic than Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, who, in his role as acting president of the European Union, had warned that Obama’s economic plan would lead others down a “road to hell.”
Before Trump, 11 US presidents helped maintain stability on the Korean Peninsula by building alliances, using diplomacy, calibrating their rhetoric, and deploying American military strength.
Three Paths to AmericaPresident George W. Bush’s free-falling popularity, his loss of control over Congress, the nagging doubts about the economy, and most of all his discredited reputation as a result of the debacle in Iraq all magnify the characteristic weakness of lame-duck American presidents.
And interminable reorganizations, politicized appointments, and the changing priorities of successive presidents have contributed to the perception that the institution is less than functional.
(The last several US presidents all sought the same goal.)
Eagleburger, who served and later often closely advised a string of US presidents from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush – and was briefly Secretary of State himself – was a diplomat who went after every tough issue there was.
Few American Presidents have been supported by much more than 10% of eligible voters: half of the US's eligible voters, indeed, are not even registered to vote; of those who are registered, half do not vote; of those who do vote, less than half vote for the winning candidate.
A starting point for minimizing the threat could be a new declaration by the Russian and US presidents reaffirming that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
Presidents must pressure their planning, education, and finance ministers to work with the health ministry and other key stakeholders to create a national plan that focuses the government's energies.
Next week's meeting between the Mexican and American presidents should take advantage of this success to push NAFTA forward in creative new ways.
Regional Fed presidents are chosen by a board representing the local business community, in particular the local bank community.
My hosts were former communist leaders who were now more or less democratically elected presidents.
Similarly, two twentieth-century US presidents, Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush, were good at articulating an ambitious foreign-policy vision, but were poor at refining and reshaping their vision when they encountered implementation challenges.
American presidents, like star athletes in team sports, get both too much credit and too much blame from voters and historians for what happens on their watch.
But this is not to say that past presidents have eschewed such hyperbole.
This is not an unreasonable question to ask, and where previous US presidents have feared to tread, a populist demagogue has rushed in.
It was discussed at the June “shirt-sleeves summit” between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, and the two governments agreed to create a special working group on the issue.
Democratic presidents favor the supposed Keynesian “stimulus” of tax cuts, while Republicans champion their alleged “supply-side” effects.
The Saudi royals do not even enjoy the warm personal relationship with President Barack Obama that they once had with Presidents George Bush (both father and son) and Bill Clinton, who managed bilateral relations directly.
Yet he leaves office with substantially higher approval ratings than most presidents achieve – and far higher than Trump’s.
But that did not happen in Libya, and events will likely tempt future presidents to behave in the same way, despite the risks.
Practical change requires revision of the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which grants presidents unfettered rights to commit American forces for 60 days.
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