Epstein Secrets

ugh is both gatekeeper and confidant for President Obama when it comes to foreign policy. The former football safety at Saint John's University in Minnesota and House foreign affairs staffer is said to be so close to the president "that colleagues -- even his superiors -- often do not make a major move

nship between a sitting President and his living predecessors is rarely easy. According to "The Presidents Club," by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, Lyndon Johnson sometimes drafted the popular former President Dwight D. Eisenhower into his publicity schemes, which frustrated Ike, who complained to aides about

cinct During George Floyd Protests. The Hill (1/23, Polus, 5.69M) reports, "Two St. Paul, Minn., men have pleaded guilty to charges in a fire at a Minnesota police precinct during the George Floyd protests last May, according to the Department of Justice." COUNTER-TERRORISM White House Orders ODNI, FBI

c rules of operation." The Times says Biden "enters with a deeper understanding of the legislative process and politicians than any president since Lyndon Johnson, a former Senate majority leader," but the question is whether his "legislative prowess is, well, a little bit sepia toned. When Mr. Biden talks abo

warehouse in the North Loop of Minneapolis, just yards from the Mississippi River. The restaurant, the Bachelor Fanner, is owned by two sons of the Minnesota governor, Mark Dayton. They had designed a special menu, which highlighted fresh produce grown on the restaurant's roof, and the staff wore matchi

ence of recent incumbents offered no guidance. No President since Dwight D. Eisenhower had served 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

had said he HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019996 didn’t. Facing Sessions at the January 10 hearing, Al Franken, the former comedian and Democratic senator from Minnesota, appeared to be casting blindly for an elusive fish in his efforts to find a question. Stopping and starting, slogging through his sentence construct

pressed him to invoke Andrew Jackson as his populist model, and he had loaded up on Jackson books (they remained unread). But his real beau ideal was Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was a big man who could knock heads, do deals, and bend lesser men to his will. Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the bette