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...When Democrats were in the White House — starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and then under John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama — they favoured internationalist policies,...
...Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton....
...But he lost the general election to Ronald Reagan by a landslide....
...Of these, the two most serious are Robert F Kennedy Jr and whichever bipartisan ticket No Labels puts up....
...Whether it was the Vietnam war, Ronald Reagan’s arms build-up, the Iraq war or gun violence, America’s passionate critics have always had plenty to point to....
...Recommended reading If you want to hear a sophisticated discussion on this subject listen to the Soufan Center’s Colin Clarke in conversation with Foreign Policy’s excellent Ravi Agrawal....
...In 1963 he produced Shirley Clarke’s Harlem drama The Cool World and then, in 1967, directed Titicut Follies, a documentary about the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts...
...Ronald Reagan is now seen as near-Prussian in his militarism. But defence spending nearly halved as a share of national output between the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and the peak of his own....
...The air force has also shrunk but is slowly taking delivery of new F-35 fighters and has begun a “future fighter jet” modernisation programme, known as Tempest....
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...Special thanks to Laura Clarke, Alastair Mackie and Jess Truglia. FT Premium subscribers can get the Unhedged newsletter for free. A 90-day free trial is available to everyone else....
...The darker elements of the story are played down, except when Michael Mayes cuts through the sweetness as George’s nemesis, Henry F Potter....
...John F Kennedy’s upholstered rocking chair....
...) and Ronald Reagan’s build-up of forces in the early 1980s....
...Special thanks to Laura Clarke, Alastair Mackie, John Schnaars, Eric Sandler and Jess Truglia....
...Kirby said the Pentagon had ordered the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft strike group to “remain on station in the general area to monitor the situation”....
...Victoria Clarke: The UK looks set to continue its same old stagnation story in early 2024....
...The press kept John F Kennedy’s secrets, and François Mitterrand’s. Even if they were so inclined now, a citizen with a camera phone and a Twitter account need not be....
...Some of Nixon’s fury probably stemmed from the claim that in 1960 his winning Democratic opponent, John F Kennedy, almost certainly benefited from stuffed ballot boxes in Chicago’s notorious Cook County....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Miranda GreenThere was John F Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1984, Clinton in 1995 and Barack Obama in 2011....
...The invasion of Ukraine means European security has “crossed a perceptual threshold” that transcends any issues brought up by Brexit, Clarke added....
...Whether it turns into a 21st-century equivalent of other hugely symbolic American presidential visits to Europe — such as the cold war-era stops in West Berlin by John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan — remains...
...Even the lack of a fashion statement could sometimes speak volumes: in a time when men typically wore hats, John F Kennedy went without, earning him the nickname “hatless Jack” and a down-to-earth reputation...
...The movement was championed by politicians, among them Ronald Reagan, and intellectuals such as William F Buckley....
...It might be an economic war,” Reeves told an audience at the John F Kennedy Library in Boston in 2006. “But their interests were fundamentally different over the long term....
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