Hints and tips:
...less about policy than campaign politics, since delay allows Biden to put off a showdown between strident supporters on both sides of the issue,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former climate adviser to the Bill Clinton...
...There he entertained everyone from King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the Clintons, Warren Buffett, Madonna, James Dyson and Arnold Schwarzenegger....
...Kissinger had easy access to every president, whether they were Democratic, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Biden, or the Republicans George Bush Sr and Jr, and Donald Trump....
...Clinton’s national security adviser, Tony Lake, even urged Clinton as early as 1994 to consider the option of Nato membership for Ukraine. This idea came to nothing....
...George W Bush appointed Howard Baker, a former Senate majority leader....
...I rarely find myself in agreement with Gerard Baker, but I appreciated his understanding (and acknowledgment of the FT’s data!)...
...The film takes place in 2016; snippets of Trump and Clinton drift by. And material bleakness is all around....
...Baker would not be persuaded....
...“America’s oldest president can now boast of a stronger legislative record in less than two years than either Obama or Bill Clinton achieved in eight,” I write....
...In 1973, Howard Baker, the senior Republican on the committee, asked: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”...
...They convinced themselves that Baker’s assurance, and others like it, amounted to a moral and political commitment....
...“What is quite striking is that a core still believes in big events like the arrival of JFK Junior after so many promises of things that were going to happen — such as Hillary Clinton’s arrest, Trump winning...
...Law firm Baker McKenzie named 95 partners....
...He once declared Trump to be “nuts” but still voted for him against Hillary Clinton. Baker put his party first but he was also trading tacit support for access and influence....
...The post has often been held by political heavyweights such as James Baker, who served in the job for Ronald Reagan, and Leon Panetta, for Bill Clinton....
...Mr Biden’s transition planners should memorise the advice White House chief of staff James Baker gave to Ronald Reagan in 1981....
...(FT) The Man Who Ran Washington — biography of James Baker For three decades and more, James A Baker III was the face of American power, writes Lionel Barber....
...He empowered strong cabinet secretaries — Mr Gates at the Pentagon, Hillary Clinton at state — in hopes that their views could be synthesised by the National Security Council. “What didn’t he have?”...
...Two job scoops to start: first off, Doug Band, the adviser who helped to chart Bill Clinton’s post-presidential career, is resigning from his role as president of Teneo, the communications and executive...
...The US horizontal rig count — a measure of shale drilling activity — has fallen for 16 straight weeks to a 15-year low of 226, according to oilfield services group Baker Hughes....
...In 2008, Sarah Palin, the vice-presidential nominee to John McCain, championed the growing white working class element of the base, which had largely voted for Bill Clinton the previous decade....
...It is what connects railroader Terry from east Tennessee, young Parisian baker Eric and small businessman Giorgio in Milan, just some of those whose stories I got to know as I investigated this phenomenon...
...A major turning point came when Howard Baker, a Republican senator, asked: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”...
...The Senate Watergate committee had one stated goal that summer: to find the facts, or as Senator Howard Baker famously asked John Dean: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”...
...“This is beyond anything Nixon did,” he said, adding: “Where is Howard Baker?”...
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