Archive for ‘Speech’

A Turn Toward Common Sense?

Mar 1, 2017  •  10 Comments

For most Americans, Presidents’ Day counts as a trivial holiday but this year it looks as if Donald Trump made the most of the occasion. Perhaps he saw results of new historian polls and noted that the five all-time greats shared...

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History Shows: Odds Against Obama’s Second Term

Mar 28, 2012  •  0 Comments

As he campaigns for re-election, Barack Obama pursues a profound and uncommon honor denied to nearly two-thirds of his predecessors. Contrary to a widely held popular belief, political history doesn’t anoint incumbent presidents as...

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