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WLTZ 38 NBC
April 21, 2018
“Trading of foreign policy favors for personal enrichment such as a favor for a hotel in Moscow or such as a $500 million dollar loan for the Kushner family ... “I will tell you though as Gerald Ford famously said they asked him what's an act that would warrant impeachment he said anything you can get 50% ofÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
“I would prefer achieving the president's foreign policy goals with unrelenting diplomacy rather than by sending young men and women to war.” — Mike Pompeo, the ... A decade later, President Gerald Ford ceremonially traded a couple of singles for a two and expressed hope that it would finally catch on.
POLITICO Magazine
April 2, 2018
Indeed, he tells me in a new interview for The Global POLITICO that the president “has no strategy” and little to fall back on foreign policy-wise but a real ..... that he actually incrementally increased in his speech on the Gerald Ford to a 355-ship Navy, and a 12-carrier group, possibly 13-carrier group Navy,Ãâà...
The National
April 2, 2018
John F Kennedy was assassinated; Lyndon Johnson, destroyed by the lies over Vietnam; Richard Nixon, destroyed by Watergate; Gerald Ford, decent, dull ... who avoided scandal yet disappointed even himself by the difficulties of real reforms to health care and gun control and his foreign policy failures.
The Cheat Sheet
April 1, 2018
Additionally, Kennedy enjoyed 70% approval ratings in early 1963, with many Americans confident in his handling of foreign policy and domestic affairs. Plus, Pew reports ... Most Americans would sympathize with someone who has survived an assassination attempt — but not in Gerald Ford's case. As TheÃâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
Less confident about Vietnam than he was about domestic matters, Johnson regularly asked the foreign policy advisers he inherited from Kennedy — chiefly ... Democratic Congresses voted to hem in Nixon's war-making power by enacting the War Powers Resolution and forbade President Gerald Ford toÃâà...
Politico
March 25, 2018
Beginning in 1945, some of them had forged a bipartisan foreign policy based on containing the Soviet Union. ... It continued, albeit at a much-diminished level, until 1975, when a Democratic-controlled Congress refused President Gerald Ford's request for renewed military aid to the beleaguered SouthÃâà...
WBUR
March 23, 2018
On Thursday, President Donald Trump dismissed his national security advisor, H. R. McMaster and immediately announced that John Bolton will be the replacement. This is a worst nightmare scenario for any American who opposes Trump's already hawkish and destructive foreign policies. Bolton, whoÃâà...
HuffPost
March 23, 2018
President Harry Truman created the NSC in 1947 as an advisory body on national security and foreign policy matters. The council consists of the president, vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, treasury secretary and a national security adviser, who gets appointed by the president directly.
The Atlantic
March 15, 2018
But to its immense frustration, Ronald Reagan chose the establishment-minded James Baker—who had run Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush's primary campaigns against him in 1976 and 1980—as his chief of staff. And he chose as his secretary of state George Schultz, who as Nixon's secretary of laborÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 12, 2018
Here's a cheery letter from Gerald Ford inviting Central African Republic dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the remains of 30 people were found in his crocodile pond upon ouster) to Washington. We helped install ... The line between friend and pariah in our foreign policy is incredibly slim. It really has nothing toÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 14, 2017
While the Yamato was the pinnacle of the battleship era, the recently commissioned USS Gerald Ford represents the state of the art of what came next — the era of naval aviation and, crucially, the aircraft carrier. At 1,100 feet long and displacing over 100,000 tons, the Ford is a massive ship. However, whileÃâà...
Eyes on the Ties
December 31, 1999
Franklin C. Miller delivering a 2015 speech titled “The New Cold War.” The Trump Administration's release of its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) in early February alarmed many people because it points towards a heightened weaponization of nuclear armaments with its call for more “low-yield” options – or,Ãâà...
Progressive.org
December 31, 1999
Joe Wilson is angry, and, he believes, rightly so. He sees the decision by President Donald Trump to pardon the man who destroyed the career of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a threat to U.S. national security. “If you can get away with betraying the identity of a covert operations officer and take a pardon,”Ãâà...
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