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FT Swamp Notes
Trump, McCarthyism and the demise of demagogues Premium content
...Potential Republican foils including George W Bush, James Baker and Nikki Haley, Tye says, have remained on the sidelines, and those who have stood up to Trump — Cheney and Senator Mitt Romney — have been...
July 16, 2021
FT Magazine
Tim Harford: why we fall for cons
...Since the dawn of the television age, the only person ever to have overcome a height deficit of more than three inches was the incumbent George W Bush running against John Kerry....
November 14, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
The 50th anniversary of the Moon landing
Why Nasa’s next Moon mission can’t be an Apollo retread
...In January 2004, George W Bush announced his own space strategy, including a goal to “return to the Moon by 2020”....
July 5, 2019
FT Swamp Notes
Am I a protectionist?
...Recommended reading The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O Paxton....
July 16, 2018
Life & Arts
Going down? What the future holds for the department store
...Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr’s sense for the zeitgeist meant that shoppers got a glimpse of Louis Blériot’s aeroplane days after he crossed the English channel in it in 1909 and John Logie Baird first demonstrated...
August 22, 2018
News in-depthFTfm
Politicians’ sprinkling of stardust boosts the funds industry
...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...
May 19, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Life & Arts
Homes back in fashion in London’s dandy district, St James’s
...A similar level of individual assessment is available at bootmakers John Lobb....
August 13, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Effie Gray – film review
...They all live together in the south London family mansion which, according to Thompson, John and Effie could not escape. In actuality they had their own London address, albeit funded by Ruskin Sr....
October 9, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
‘41: A Portrait of My Father’ by George W Bush
...41: A Portrait of My Father, by George W Bush, WH Allen, RRP£20/Crown, RRP$28, 304 pages When the grapevine reported that George W Bush was writing the memoir 41, I imagined a small animal creeping out...
November 14, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Pop and circumstance
...Her improbable successor John Major softened the edges of Thatcherism enough to make the party electable one last time against a not yet wholly reformed Labour....
August 30, 2013
ObituaryWorld
Political annalist famed for his barbs
...His father, Eugene Sr, was a flying instructor and football coach there and was to found three airlines, one of which became TWA....
August 1, 2012
US politics & policy
Legal flaws give free rein to super-Pacs
...John Dunbar is political editor for the Centre for Public Integrity, a non-profit, non-partisan investigative journalism organisation. Rachael Marcus contributed to this report....
January 16, 2012
Life & Arts
Pizza and politerati
...But her full-time job is at the lobbying firm the Ashcroft Group, established by John Ashcroft, George W....
January 6, 2012
FT Magazine
Mitt Romney: born to run?
...In 1968, Romney Sr was briefly favoured to become the Republican nominee for the presidential election....
October 5, 2012
UK schools
Of Chipping Norton, Cheltenham and a dress-down Cameron
...Did John Major invite George Bush Sr to ride in a minibus to the Oval to watch his beloved Surrey take on Leicester?)...
March 16, 2012
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
NotebookClimate change
A campaign of would-be outsiders
...In Australia, John Howard still identified himself as the archetypal “Aussie battler” after more than a decade as the conservative prime minister....
September 1, 2011
US downturn
US envoy to China to step down
...David Frum, a former aide to George W....
February 1, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
American Caesars
...Late in the book, we are informed that George Bush Sr once bailed George W Bush out of a charge of cocaine possession; the judge ordered that the legal record be expunged....
July 23, 2010
Climate change
Obama treads fine line with India and China
...By that measure, the sinecures in the UK and Japan, which went to Lou Susman, the Chicago investment banker, and John Roos, the Silicon Valley lawyer, are treated as rewards for election fund-raising rather...
November 23, 2009
FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway
CalPERS calls out Ken
...., John Collins, Gary Countryman, Tommy Franks, and Charles Gifford....
April 28, 2009
Lunch with the FTLife & Arts
Lunch with the FT: Bob Woodward
...Woodward wrote four books about George W Bush while he was in office – a record for anyone writing about a sitting president....
June 5, 2009
Life & Arts
Oedipus Tex
...The movie emphasises Bush Sr’s strong sense of family, and Stone notes that while W had a conflicted relationship with his father, the idea of family values became central to his personality and politics...
October 18, 2008
Life & Arts
FT Series Part 1: Warren Buffett
...W. Paul, President....
September 26, 2008
Matthew Engel
Anything but the best
...The world would be a safer place if George W....
January 5, 2007
World
The secret fixations of American presidents
...George W....
February 19, 2006

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