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Watching the chaotic cacophony that passes for Trump foreign policy makes me recall the most skilled presidential foreign policy operation I ever covered - that of George H.W. Bush. So, last week, when I traveled to the Texas A&M University campus to speak at a symposium, I made a point of visiting the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Jimmy Carter never fully regained Bill Clinton's trust after Mr. Carter's administration sent Cuban refugees to Arkansas in 1980. Mr. Clinton criticized George H. W. Bush for tanking the American economy.
President Donald Trump stepped into a hot church-state dispute Friday night, tweeting support for Texas churches that were damaged by Hurricane Harvey and now want assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to rebuild. Trump's tweet came after three Texas churches filed a lawsuit last week challenging a policy from FEMA that excludes houses of worship from disaster relief grants, and as Hurricane Irma barreled toward the southeastern United States.
None of the host of ultra-liberal Democrats who would love to succeed her makes the direct argument that at 84 - she'll be one year older by next November's election - fellow Democrat Dianne Feinstein is too aged to be one of California's two United States senators. But that's what they mean.
Liberals are usually the ones who like to throw money at ineffective programs. That philosophy certainly helps explain the teen pregnancy "prevention" money pit Americans have been financing for the last eight years.
In January, 2001, newly inaugurated President George W. Bush invited U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy to the White House for movie night to watch Thirteen Days, which is about President John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The point of the overture, however, was to appeal to Senator Kennedy to support "No Child Left Behind," not just to pop popcorn.
Foreign policy crises comes and go, but the power struggle between an unorthodox and ignorant president and America's military machine is eternal. With North Korea repeatedly demonstrating the potency of its nuclear arsenal, the president and the Pentagon are struggling to counter a new threat to U.S. allies in Asia and potentially to the United States itself.
The five living former U.S. presidents said Thursday they would team up to create the "One America Appeal" to raise money for storm recovery as Texas and Louisiana seek to regroup from Harvey and Florida and the Atlantic coast brace for Hurricane Irma. The hurricane recovery effort was announced by former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter.
Congress has tried to sneak through amnesties three times in a little more than a decade. Every time, the American people somehow found out - despite the best efforts of the press - rose up in a rage and killed the proposed bills.
The most eye-popping figure in the latest Fox News poll is that 56 percent of those surveyed say President Trump is tearing the country apart. Not surprisingly, there's a dramatic partisan split in those numbers: Some 68 percent of Republicans say the president is drawing the country together, while 93 percent of Democrats say he is tearing the country apart.
This is to be expected. If it didn't appear in Politico then it might have been posted right here: It's an article of faith in American politics that big disasters are defining moments for presidents-creating a huge stage for political theater and also posing some of the biggest risks.
US President Barack Obama, with his letter to Donald Trump, is seen before leaving the White House for the final time. In the final minutes of his time in the Oval Office, just before he left for his successor's inauguration, US President Barack Obama slipped a handwritten letter inside the top drawer of the Resolute desk.
Hurricane Harvey may have wreaked havoc among thousands of Texans, but it has thrown a political lifeline to Donald Trump, handing him a much-needed opportunity to demonstrate he can play president in a time of national emergency. The last Republican in the Oval Office, George W. Bush, initially settled for an antiseptic presidential flyover of Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans 12 years ago, and was roundly criticized for it.
Rep. James Bridenstine, R-Okla., was selected as administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Bridenstine serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee.
It must be a painful admission for the Washington Post Editorial Board that FEMA is doing a good job, since they, and so many Democrats, were hoping it would fail, because they hate Trump. No matter that it would harm Americans, the hatred runs strong THE GULF of Mexico coast is just coming to grips with the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, the remnants of which continued to pelt inland areas Thursday.
On August 29, 2005, monster Hurricane Katrina slammed into Louisiana and Mississippi. In the catastrophe that resulted, over 80% of New Orleans was flooded and 1,836 people in Louisiana and Mississippi died.
Natural disasters know no political boundaries. And that's why international humanitarian relief flows so quickly, and in such great and humbling quantities, when hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis strike.
In an uncharacteristically short speech, President Trump went over the broadest strokes of the tax plan he and Congressional Republicans plan to unveil. The speech covered four main proposals, and the last one - a tax holiday for American multinational corporations that have cash stashed overseas - is a proven, abject failure.
President Trump faces political opportunities and perils as he visits Texas on Tuesday, grappling with the first natural disaster of his administration. Trump has been careful to avoid projecting any sense of disengagement in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, such as the pictures of then-President George W. Bush observing Hurricane Katrina's damage from Air Force One.