Showing posts with label James M. Lindsay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James M. Lindsay. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 April 2016

Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Democratic Debate Highlights Three Critical Foreign Policy Lessons (James M. Lindsay, CFR)

Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders speak simultaneously during a Democratic debate in New York on April 14, 2016.

Foreign policy came up a fair bit in last night’s Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. We have seen the general thrust of their exchanges many times before. Clinton touted her extensive foreign policy credentials and questioned Sanders’s. He in turn touted his foreign policy judgment and questioned hers.

http://blogs.cfr.org/lindsay/2016/04/15/campaign-2016-friday-foreign-policy-roundup-democratic-debate-highlights-three-critical-foreign-policy-lessons/

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day (James M. Lindsay, CFR)

American kids often say they want to be president when they grow up. You have to wonder why. A few presidents have loved the job. Teddy Roosevelt said “No president has ever enjoyed himself as much as I have enjoyed myself.” Most presidents, though, have found the job demanding, perhaps too demanding. James K. Polk pretty much worked himself to exhaustion. Zachary Taylor, the hero of the Mexican-American War, found being president harder than leading men into battle. Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack from the stress of leading the Free World. Many presidents express relief once they can be called “former president.” This trend started early. John Adams told his wife Abigail that George Washington looked too happy watching him take the oath of office. “Me–thought I heard him say, ‘Ay, I am fairly out and you fairly in! See which of us will be happiest!”

http://blogs.cfr.org/lindsay/2016/02/15/twe-celebrates-presidents-day-5/