Barack Obama Quotes
All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.
Obama, Barack. "Press Conference by the President." National Archives and Records Administration, 14 Nov. 2016.
Actually the statement is not literally true though the exceptions are not numerous. People who sold their American common stocks before the 1929 stock market made money. The few people who bet against the U. S. Housing and Mortgage markets before the Meltdown of 2008, made a great deal of money. Over extended long periods, Biden’s statement is true.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Chamberlain was about to leave for the Munich Conference where his appeasement emboldened Hitler and the Germans and dashed all hope of peace. Baldwin was out of office, but his support of the Munich appeasement changed his image from that of a popular statesman, to a craven appeaser. See {626930} for Churchill’s view of Baldwin.
In retrospect, the prosperity was a bubble. It burst the following year with President Herbert Hoover in office and the Great Depression ensued. In the meltdown of 2008, there was another bubble that burst causing the Great Recession.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
