Epstein Secrets

than energy, brains, and celebrity. Dean Acheson helped rebuild Europe after World War II. Henry Kissinger, who acted like the secretary of state for Richard Nixon even before he got the job, engineered the opening to China. But does anyone think Colin Powell left State with a better reputation than he had befor

ns and TV blowhards who had once catalogued her distortions and dined out on despising her. Hillary Clinton is now in her ninth straight year as the Gallup poll’s “America’s Most Admired Woman,” but being a great secretary of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024980 --- PAGE BREAK --- 24 state requires more than energ

d two full terms. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson, overwhelmed by the war in Vietnam, had declined to run for reelection in 1968. Richard Nixon resigned less than seventeen months into his second term. Gerald Ford (who was never elected) and Jimmy Carter were defeated. By the nineteen- eigh

phes (Katrina, deterioration in Iraq, the crash of financial markets). The Democrats took over Congress in 2006, and on Election Day in 2008 Bush's Gallup approval rating stood at twenty-five per cent. There is an argument, common on the right, that if Obama is reelected he will pursue a more ideolog

et al.)? They rank almost four times as high on the trustworthy scale. To be fair, it's not as if politicians haven't earned the reputation -- from Richard Nixon ("I'm not a crook") to George H.W. Bush EFTA_R1_00298272 EFTA01883853 ("Read my lips") to Bill Clinton ("I did not have sexual relations with th

poll respondents give U.S. elected officials "high" or "very high" ratings when it comes to honesty and ethical standards, according to the latest Gallup figures. That's on par with those paragons of dishonesty, car salesmen, and a step below telemarketers. The guys who invented credit-default swaps

ars of Obama to the Johnson years, or even to the Nixon years, and especially to the Reagan and Clinton y

lt-population and new home sales per 1,000 adults and how these measures strongly indicate a Republican victory. lll.) Using historical data for the Gallup poll question “are you satisfied” and presidential election dates, this section would point to an overwhelming Republican win in November 2016. IV.)