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Edward Luce
America’s ‘do-harm’ Congress
...His chief instrument on Capitol Hill is Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives....
February 7, 2024
ObituaryIris Apfel
Iris Apfel, interior designer and fashion icon, 1921-2024
...Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton....
March 9, 2024
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
FT Swamp Notes
Who (or what) comes after Biden? Premium content
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
February 19, 2024
Gideon Rachman
Joe Biden’s claim to presidential greatness
...Like Johnson and Truman, Biden’s years in the Senate have given him an appreciation of how to get legislation through....
January 9, 2023
Edward Luce
The Kamala Harris question
...Harry Truman, one of America’s best 20th-century presidents, was not even told America had an atomic bomb until after he was sworn in....
May 17, 2023
House & Home
Can ‘gentle density’ help us solve the housing crisis?
...The latter was built by Disney; the former was memorably, if almost unbelievably, immortalised in The Truman Show, the 1998 sci-fi satire of reality TV starring Jim Carrey, which was mostly shot on location...
November 3, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FirstFT
FirstFT: Calls grow for Bolsonaro to be expelled
...Joe Biden’s claim to presidential greatness Like Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden is an underestimated former vice-president who is excelling in the Oval Office....
January 10, 2023
News in-depthJoe Biden
Biden confounds critics by ending tough year on a high note
...But if Biden does decide to step aside, he will want to do so early enough to allow potential Democratic successors to mount successful campaigns, unlike Lyndon Johnson’s late announcement in 1968, which...
December 25, 2022
ReviewBiography and memoir
Robert Lowell’s Memoirs — vital lessons from a vanished age
...His mother was a descendant of William Samuel Johnson, a signer of the US Constitution....
August 9, 2022
Robert Shrimsley
Afghan fiasco shows the hollowness of Global Britain
...A second policy prong is also needed, mindful that the America of the Truman doctrine is not coming back any time soon....
August 18, 2021
InterviewGeneral Electric Co
Jeff Immelt shares out blame for GE’s decline
...An avid historian, Immelt devoured David McCullough’s biography of Harry Truman, “an abject failure at age 50” who became a two-term president....
February 26, 2021
Edward Luce
Biden’s big fiscal gamble on America’s future
...Few had heard of Harry Truman. As Biden approaches his first 100 days as president, the sheer size of his throw of the dice is starting to sink in....
April 8, 2021
Instant InsightPeter Spiegel
A president-elect with big ambitions but more prosaic skills
...Does anyone remember Lyndon Johnson’s first inaugural address? But like Mr Biden, Johnson came to the White House after a life mastering the Senate....
November 8, 2020
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Joe Biden should rethink his Pentagon pick
...But he could far more plausibly have selected Jeh Johnson, the former secretary of homeland security and Pentagon counsel....
December 8, 2020
Jared Cohen
Pence vs Harris: how independent should a VP be?
...Andrew Johnson enshrined racist policies after the civil war. Harry Truman adopted a more sceptical posture towards Joseph Stalin and ordered the use of the nuclear bomb....
October 6, 2020
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Janan Ganesh
The deceptive radicalism of Joe Biden
...Harry Truman was a machine politician from the pragmatic Midwest. As for Johnson, progressives feared they were getting an unreconstructed vulgarian, not the Civil Rights Act and Medicare....
July 22, 2020
The Weekend Essay
From Suez to Brexit and back again: Britain’s long search for a role
...Yet Truman cancelled Lend-Lease — the financial lifeline that kept Britain solvent — within weeks of victory....
January 15, 2021
Philip Stephens
Post-Brexit Britain cannot rely on a special relationship
...Sentiment counted for nought when Harry Truman severed Britain’s financial lifeline in 1945, when Dwight Eisenhower pulled the plug on sterling to scupper Anthony Eden’s Suez adventure in 1956, or when Ronald...
January 30, 2020
FT SeriesNew Cold War
‘This is a guy who is a thug’: how US elite became hawks on Xi’s China
...He visited a farm in Iowa where he had stayed as a young man and took in a Lakers basketball match in Los Angeles, posing for photographs with Magic Johnson....
October 8, 2020
Philip Stephens
The post-Brexit price of a special relationship
...Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F Kennedy were also present at the creation....
August 15, 2019
ReviewBooks
Where Power Stops, by David Runciman
...Ranging across leaders from Lyndon Johnson to Donald Trump, he gnaws away at the theory of character as destiny....
September 2, 2019
FT MagazineGillian Tett
The US needs to change the way it chooses ‘veeps’
...(In case you have forgotten your history, these were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Lyndon B Johnson.)...
May 22, 2019
Special ReportUniversal Healthcare
Universal health coverage: an illustrated history
...President Harry Truman started a debate over US public healthcare in 1945. This eventually resulted in the creation under President Lyndon Johnson of two government programmes: Medicare and Medicaid....
September 23, 2019
Henry Mance
Alternative arrangements for the Tory party
...If you are looking for a unilateral exit mechanism, we gather your former foreign secretary Boris Johnson is willing to provide one....
January 31, 2019
FT Magazine
Tim Harford: why we fall for cons
...Reagan was taller than Carter, Nixon was taller than Humphrey, Kennedy was taller than Nixon, Truman taller than Dewey. Lyndon Johnson was taller than pretty much everyone....
November 14, 2019

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