Epstein Secrets

ces, which depressed economic growth — were the la=gest, because they hurt Republicans more than Democrats. They occurred in =973 (Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford), 1979 (Jimmy Carter but affecting Rona=d Reagan's first term) and 2008 (George W. Bush). Statistically, t=ey explain slightly more than a quarter

with Ronald Reagan, I have vot=d Republican in every presidential election since I first became eligible to vote in 1980. = worked in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations and in the White House for George W. Bush as a speechwriter=and adviser. I have also worked for Republican presidential campaigns, a

rwhelmed 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- eighties, it had become popular to talk about the crisis of the Presidency

reform, and created a separate new department," that of Veterans Affairs. Obama's campaign is well aware that he may end up like Jimmy Carter or George H. W. Bush, the two most recent one-term Presidents, who were both defeated despite some notable—even historic—accomplishments, including the Camp David Accor

esident, or chief operating officer, or even prime minister. Larger-than-life chiefs have included Richard Nixon’s H. R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clint

ixon’s H. R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clinton’s Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, and John Podesta; George W. Bush’s Andrew Card; and Barack Obama’s Rahm Emanuel a