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And, while the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets US monetary policy, comprises not only the seven governors in Washington, but also five regional Federal Reserve presidents, the governors have the final say in choosing which five.
Moreover, there have been proposals to eliminate regional presidents from the FOMC, largely because they tend to be policy hawks – committed to keeping inflation low – while governors in Washington often prefer to focus policy on economic growth and employment, even if it places price stability at risk.
But that is likely to change, with slow growth making the governors’ influence on regional presidents more likely to affect monetary policy.
Given this, the Fed will be the site of rising tension, as regional presidents counter the governors’ preference for monetary stimulus by pushing for policy tightening.
Both failed, because Iran’s presidents do not run the country.
In order to dominate decision-making, Khamenei prefers weak presidents.
Indeed, some analysts argue that former President Bill Clinton’s efforts to achieve a breakthrough with Iran failed because they were addressed to Iran’s presidents.
Cuba has never been invited to the Summit of the Americas, because the meeting was designed to include only members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and democratically elected presidents (although Peru’s then-president, Alberto Fujimori, attended in 1998, despite having suspended the country’s constitution in an “auto-coup” in 1992).
Arab democracy, he claims, has now become a domestic concern in the United States, which will make it hard for American presidents to sweep the abuses of friendly Arab regimes under the rug, as they did in the past.
That brief conversation – the first between the two countries’ presidents since 1979 – recalls the last attempt to revive bilateral diplomacy, undertaken 12 years ago by Iran’s then-President Mohammad Khatami.
In fact, since 1985, fifteen Latin American presidents – most without legislative majorities – have not finished their term.
In such circumstances, presidents have abused their powers and created “super-presidential semi-presidential” authoritarian regimes.
And she predicted that empirical evidence and expert knowledge will still carry substantial – if not full – weight in decision-making by legislators, presidents, and their advisers.
The Commission’s 1987 report, “Our Common Future,” became a landmark document that brought sustainable development to the attention of presidents, prime ministers, and finance ministers worldwide.
Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush have both said that they’ll stay out of this race.
They are even nuclear radicals, and many seek to obstruct the New START treaty with Russia, which would modestly advance the arms-control agenda pursued by all Republican presidents since Richard Nixon.
The new "partners" should be watched with vigilance, not because presidents Jiang and Yeltsin have agreed to coordinate their strategies in the region, as many now believe, but because Moscow seems unaware of the negative role it is playing.
May then announced that she was going to talk to other EU presidents and prime ministers to get the sort of reassurances that might satisfy her right-wing critics.
While Latin American former presidents have spoken out against this outrage, important leaders such as President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and President Michelle Bachelet of Chile have remained quiet.
That said, since the Islamic Republic’s emergence in 1979, Iran’s leaders have generally preferred Republican presidents to Democrats: despite their harsh rhetoric, Republicans have been more willing to engage with Iran in practice.
Whether Trump is in the Oval Office, on Air Force One, or at his Mar-a-Lago resort, he, like all presidents, resides in a giant bubble, where those around him usually tell him what he wants to hear.
That is why it is so important that presidents have aides and advisers, both in and out of the White House, who are willing to tell them when they are veering off course.
But such opportunities do sometimes present themselves for US presidents.
Upon taking office, all US presidents soon realize that their domestic and economic policymaking authority is constrained by Congress and the courts, but that they have much more sway over foreign and national-security affairs.
All US presidents attempting to resolve that conflict have faced massive – indeed, insurmountable – domestic political obstacles.
Previous US presidents have worked hard to craft an integrated economic and strategic approach to America’s relationship with Asia.
Argentina ran through four presidents in less than two years, before the political and economic situation stabilized.
In an unprecedented move, the two presidents, strolled together in Nicosia’s old town, crisscrossing the Green Line.
When talks resumed in earnest in May, both presidents were directly involved, their participation having been facilitated by UN Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide.
The scope for abuse of power, public money, the media, and most state institutions available to sitting presidents makes it almost impossible to defeat them.
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