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...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....
...Voters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, rejected a proposal to disband the city’s police department, 18 months after George Floyd was killed there....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...George HW Bush’s was an exception. Regardless of politics, virtually everyone who dealt with America’s 41st president was struck by his strong sense of personal decency....
...At one point the line-up included former US president George Bush Sr, his secretary of state James Baker, former British prime minister John Major and former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss...
...Sir Edward Leigh, a veteran backbencher, called for “tweaks” to the cuts in the name of “compassion”. But Ms Allen’s speech provided greater drama....
...What initially began as a squabble among Scottish nobles over the inheritance of the Scottish crown became a war against Edward I’s England....
...He compared London to Jersey and the Cayman Islands, saying: “[Central London] does just as nicely as St Helier or George Town these days.” Even businesses point to some haven-like qualities....
...William “Bucky” Bush, George H.W. Bush’s younger brother and George W.’s uncle, is troubled by the last two years....
...He may have taken his cue from the failed re-election attempts of Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. But the more apt example is from 1948....
...George Bush Sr vowed in 1988 never to raise taxes and was punished for breaking it. Every Republican since has learnt that lesson. Doing the right thing is no defence....
...But he adds little to other more thoughtful recent accounts of US decline, such as those by Raghuram Rajan, George Packer, Tyler Cowen, Paul Krugman and the FT’s Edward Luce....
...In 1992, Ross Perot helped throw the election to Bill Clinton by taking almost a fifth of the vote – most of it from George H. W. Bush. His name was registered on the ballot in only 27 states....
...Imagine Jimmy Carter writing a screed on how to govern America halfway through Clinton’s presidency – or better still, a public missive from Bush Sr to Bush Jr....
...Kennedy, Vern Krishna, Christopher Portner and Edward P....
...Brzezinski admits he has voted Republican a couple of times in his life – notably in 1988 when he endorsed George HW Bush over Michael Dukakis. But in 2012 he would not dream of doing so....
...Keen to draw a line under the militarised idealism that characterised George W. Bush’s tenure in the White House, Mr Obama may have over-corrected in some respects....
...The Man Who Would be President (1992), for example, is devoted to the ambitions of George Bush Sr’s vice-president J Danforth Quayle....
...But by the end of the 1980s, the phrase was a term of abuse by the American right and in 1990 it really came of age when the US president George Bush Sr gave a famous speech in which he warned that “the...
...STEPS TO THE OVAL OFFICE August 4 1961 Born in Honolulu to Ann Dunham from Kansas and Barack Obama Sr from Kenya, to which the father returned two years later....
...China’s ministry of commerce turned to McDermott, Will Emery for advice on the US textile industry’s attempt to persuade President George W. Bush to impose limits on Chinese textile imports....
...Sr after he comes out with some meaningless piece of jibberish and says: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy!”...
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