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Until Trump came along, US presidents were held to stricter norms of behavior and speech than ordinary people.
Nuclear weapons cannot be left to the whims and fancies of dictators, authoritarians, and democratically elected presidents – gender notwithstanding.
Individual presidents and secretaries of state will certainly try.
Whereas previous presidents have viewed international accords in the context of broader US trade and security strategy, Trump looks at them in isolation.
Knowing since 1974 of India’s nuclear ambitions, I and other American presidents imposed a consistent policy: no sales of nuclear technology or uncontrolled fuel to India or any other country that refused to sign the NPT.
Like previous US presidents, Donald Trump has said that this state of affairs is intolerable.
That means a country where government institutions quietly do their work, presidents neither threaten citizens nor give three-hour speeches that television stations are forced to carry, people can walk down the street without fear, and the economy is not perennially teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
The president, no doubt, is but one of many factors shaping the economy, and some presidents have certainly been luckier than others.
The difference in economic performance under Democratic and Republican presidents is consistent and substantial, with the disparities clearly above the threshold for statistical significance.
The structural budget deficit has also been smaller under Democratic presidents (1.5% of potential GDP) than when Republicans have been in office (2.2%), though this has not stopped Republicans from criticizing Democrats for excessive spending.
There is only a 100-to-one chance that nine out of the last ten recessions would have begun under Republican presidents.
In assessing Clinton’s statements on this topic, the fact-checkers make much of the finding by Blinder and Watson that, contrary to widespread assumptions, fiscal and monetary policies are not more “pro-growth” or expansionary under Democrats than under Republican presidents, and therefore cannot explain the performance differential.
But presidents make many policy decisions – concerning energy, anti-trust, regulation, trade, labor, and foreign policy, to name a few – beyond how much fiscal and monetary stimulus to pursue.
All she said was that the US economy does better under Democratic presidents.
The new Honduran and Chilean presidents are not allies, unlike their predecessors.
The US has never really wanted to include human rights issues in trade agreements; at best, and only when forced, US presidents have consented to incorporating labor and environmental chapters.
The Presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States—holders of the largest nuclear arsenals—recognize this.
Indeed, the result represents a stunning and historic defeat: during the Fifth Republic, three sitting presidents – Charles de Gaulle, Mitterrand, and Jacques Chirac – have been reelected after their first term in office.
In America, presidents are limited to two terms in office.
Whereas members of the Fed’s Washington-based Board of Governors are nominated by the US president, subject to Senate confirmation, the presidents of the regional Federal Reserve banks are appointed by local boards.
In reality, the New York Fed has always had disproportionate sway; not all regional Fed presidents are created equal.
The president of the New York Fed is a permanent voting member and vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rates, whereas other regional Fed presidents are voting members only on a rotating basis.
But her warning (“eventually those snakes are going to turn on” their keeper), like those of other American officials over the years, including presidents and CIA chiefs, went unheeded.
The same is true of academic administrators, whether they are presidents of women’s colleges or mixed-gender colleges and universities.
These publishers, presidents, and micro-entrepreneurs all have track records of accomplishment.
And the US Drug Enforcement Administration will not look kindly on any backtracking from previous Mexican presidents’ commitments to continue waging a costly, bloody, and futile war of choice on drugs in Mexico.
A review of the documents presented to the Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, chaired by the Presidents of Indonesia and Liberia and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, reveals a broad range of recommendations, rooted in a deep understanding of current and future global health problems.
But, successive presidents since Jacques Chirac have failed to reconcile the French with politics.
Presidents of Yale have come and gone, but Swensen stays on.
In the last 16 years, however, the Democratic and Republican presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have offered virtually the same take: free trade all the way.
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