Epstein Secrets

the wee hours. Conventions, not primaries, were the process by which the parties selected their nominees for president and vice president. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt didn't win the nomination until the fourth ballot in a tense all-night session. His opponent in 1940, Wendell Willkie, winning the Republican nomina

dential candidate and Senator John Kerry (gave an enthusiastic foreign policy defense of the president that turned a GOP argument on its head. "Ask Osama bin Laden if he is better off than he was four years ago '9, Massachusetts Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren, former Ohio governor Ted Strickland (who mus

t to settle problems abroad but to make sure "our own house is in perfect order." He promised to "prosper America first." In the mid-to-late 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt took a different approach, pushing back, at first tentatively but then ever more vigorously, trying to convince the American public that it was mak

so-grand—visions of America's role in the world. To the extent that Obama pitched his foreign policy record at all, he did so around the killing of Osama bin Laden, which today looks like an increasingly symbolic rather than substantive triumph, as jihadists spread across the greater Middle East. Mitt Romney l

fort with Russia's authoritarian rule and widespread civic corruption. As troubling as Russia is, it hardly represents the kind of evil entity that Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill snuggled up to during World War II. As a regional power, Russia has legitimate regional interests, and the United States sho

Afghanistan and Pakistan, was hamstrung from the outset. The problems do not stem only from the U.S. drone campaign and the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden, nor is Islamabad's failure to take on difficult domestic reforms solely to blame. The problems are also due to the United States' inability to ins