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...Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, did succeed in brokering the Abraham Accords between Israel and various Arab states....
...Nearby is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, one of three statues of the great American president I have noticed since arriving....
...The family dinner table serves up a steady diet of lox bagels, yelling and casual racism while in the background Ronald Reagan promises prosperity for all and new perils from the east....
...Whistleblowing speeches warning of a new era of Jim Crow and citing Abraham Lincoln sadly aren’t doing the trick. Your feedback And now a word from our Swampians . . ....
...Packer’s title, Last Best Hope (of Earth), after a line from Abraham Lincoln, is thus ironic and earnest at the same time....
...It is time to begin again if only to honour Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and the Bushes....
...The voice was Biden’s, some of the wording was Abraham Lincoln’s, but the thesis had come unmistakably via Jon Meacham....
...Ronald Reagan too spoke frequently of 1980s America as a “shining city on a hill”....
...It was a play on the optimistic “Morning in America” advert that former president Ronald Reagan used in his successful re-election campaign in 1984....
...But she said: “We’ve gone done the rabbit hole pretty much right now, and we need to get out of it,” adding that Republicans in particular “have strayed from what was the party of Ronald Reagan and Abraham...
...The Republican party, once the party of Abraham Lincoln, has now joined Europe’s populist rightwing parties as a vehicle for nativist politics....
...Notable members Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton (US presidents), Salman Rushdie (novelist)....
...Both Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Baines Johnson could be prone to outbursts, she told National Public Radio, but they found ways to control their temperament....
...Laura Ingalls was born in Wisconsin in 1867, two years after Abraham Lincoln died, living until 1957 when “All Shook Up” by Elvis topped the charts....
...Abraham Diskin, a political scientist at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, said the current investigation seemed more weighty than its predecessors....
...Or perhaps a close-shaven Abraham Lincoln suddenly sprung up on the podium....
...Clashing cabinet secretaries are nothing new, analysts say, citing rivalries between Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz under Ronald Reagan or between Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell under George W Bush...
...Many feared Ronald Reagan. But his was an optimistic country whereas Trump’s America is a dark, fearful and insular place....
...Abraham Lincoln appealed to “the better angels of our nature” in 1860, even as the republic was on the edge of civil war....
...While Schwartz voted for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, he says: “I’m a lifetime Democrat. My children and my grandchildren are Democrats....
...Twenty years later Ronald Reagan, much helped by the gifted speechwriter Peggy Noonan, projected the ethos of can-do, good-natured America suffocating under the weight of tax-sucking government....
...Ronald Reagan was also shot and wounded in the early years of his presidency....
...If you think of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower or George HW Bush, the Republican party had a reasonable strike rate of producing them....
...Many presidents, from Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan, have been targeted by assassins....
...Reagan is the most successful postwar president and the most beloved Republican other than Abraham Lincoln....
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