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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....
...The Savile scandal, which continues to be raised by critics of the BBC, was a major factor in the 2012 downfall of George Entwistle, then director-general....
...Edward Luce Will 2024 surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record? Yes....
...Voters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, rejected a proposal to disband the city’s police department, 18 months after George Floyd was killed there....
...The story is known in popular culture and literary writing — it inspired Julian Barnes’ novel Arthur & George — but Basu, an Indian journalist and historian, offers an original and forensic account, one...
...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....
...But then protesters in Bristol pulled a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston from his perch, and suddenly the time seemed ripe to talk about Oh Happy Day....
...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...
...But in 1979, at the age of 50, Bonham Carter Sr was diagnosed with a brain tumour; an operation to remove it left him paralysed from the neck down. “It was a devastating setback,” Edward recalls....
...“I remember coming up with a lot of little phrases while he sat at the table,” recalled George Harrison of the holiday. “If anybody said anything it would go in the book.”...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Robert Edwards, fertility treatment pioneer. Tony Hawkhead, chief executive, Groundwork, the environmental charities group....
...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....
...Of all these amenities, proximity to good public schools, such as Redland Green state school in Bristol or King Edward VI in Birmingham, has had the greatest effect on house prices in recent years....
...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...
...Melody Barnes – Michigan Law and to be domestic policy adviser – worked for years for Senator Edward Kennedy....
...W (Oliver Stone)The Warlords (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)Let’s Talk About the Rain (Agnès Jaoui)Pride and Glory (Gavin O’Connor)Easy Virtue (Stephan Elliott) The George W....
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