John Lewis Gaddis Quotes
Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
Gaddis, John Lewis. "Grand Strategy in the Second Term." Foreign Affairs, vol. 84, no. 1, Council on Foreign Relations, 2005, p. 2.
President Grover Cleveland lost the White House in 1888. She was. Cleveland won the Presidency again in 1892, the only President to win non-consecutive terms.
The Senate was investigating a scandal where the George W. Bush White House had induced the Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, to fire 8 of their own political U. S. Attorney appointments because they had or were investigating/prosecuting Republican politicians for corruption or not prosecuting Democrats vigorously enough. Gonzalez took the responsibility for the firings but did “not remember” why each had been fired nor was there any record in the Justice Department indicating any shortcoming with their jobs. The White House political operatives refused to testify under oath citing “Executive Privilege.”
See {626594} for Polk’s negative view of delegation of any authority or responsibility.
The reference was to President George W. Bush.
President George W. Bush initiated an invasion of Iraq based on the fact that Iraq was developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. After the invasion however, there were none of these weapons found and much evidence that there were not any at that point in time. By the time Congress, the body which is supposed to declare war, found out that the reason for the war was bogus, it was too late. We had already occupied the country and were in the midst of a civil war. The President either acted on bad intelligence or wanted to invade Iraq for other reasons and history may finally tell us which, but Fein sees the problem as too much secrecy in the executive branch.
Compared to Most Democracies Canadian political power is shared between the Federal government and the provinces. As such the Prime Minister role in Canada is weaker than most heads of government.
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
