Epstein Secrets

The former private-practice lawyer now serves as Secretary Clinton's right-hand woman in Foggy Bottom, where she ov

an Center for Middle East Policy in 2002, has remained a steadfast supporter of the Democratic Party, personally donating thousands of dollars for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid and recently shelling out $1 million to super PACs supporting Obama. 17. Jeremy Bash When Leon Panetta became CIA director

t, Hillary Clinton, who, Obama argued, was too polarizing to get anything done in Washington. Obama soon added a harsher note to the argument: that Hillary, perhaps like her finger-wagging husband, was untrustworthy. On November 10, 2007, Obama's advisers, in a private memo before a pivotal speech in

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

ars on their watch b=fore the upheaval. But they lacked the interest and the determination—an= the knowledge of matters Egyptian. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described Mubarak as a friend of her family, and =ice President Joe Biden opined that the regime was stable even as millions=of Egyptians had gone

knowledge of matters Egyptian. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described Mubarak as a friend of her fam

John Brennan all lack the independent standing of Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Panetta and former =eneral Petraeus. They a

he presid=nt and the spook oversaw a stealth war, and the president became his own t=rgeting officer. (Obama going over kill lists recalls President Lyndon Johnson chttp://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=lyndon%20Johnson&site=3Dwnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews &output=xml_no=dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=

i Shabani Article 4. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Hezbollah's Iraq Problems Alexander Corbeil Article 5. The Washington Post Hillary Clinton's truly hard choice: Change or continuity) Fareed Zakaria Article 6. The Atlantic Secrets of the Creative Brain Nancy Andreasen The Washington P

exander Corbeil Article 5. The Washington Post Hillary Clinton's truly hard choice: Change or continuit

mstance has been for vice presidents trying to distance themselves from their bosses. Humphrey tried mightily to explain that he was different from Lyndon Johnson without criticizing the latter. "One does not repudiate his family in order to establish his own identity," he would say. Gore faced the same probl

day, Obama was meeting with Francois Hollande, the new French President; the building was filled with foreign-policy luminaries. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was climbing up the staircase alone as I descended. Rhodes's windowless office has a large printer marked with a sign that says "Classified." On hi

ith foreign-policy luminaries. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was climbing up the staircase alone as I

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

the eighties. In the Beast, on the way to Johnson's house, Obama told me, "Magic has become a good friend. I always tease him—I think he supported Hillary the first time around, in '08." "He campaigned for her in Iowa!" Josh Earnest, a press spokesman, said, still sounding chagrined. "Yeah, but we h

West," Fareed Zakaria, a writer on foreign policy whom Obama reads and consults, says. Anne-Marie Slaughter, who worked at the State Department as Hillary Clinton's director of policy planning, says, "Obama has a real understanding of the limits of our power. It's not that the United States is in decline; it's

n party, the G.O.P.— couldn't fail to summon a contrasting portrait. The biographer Robert Caro has also been a guest. Caro's ongoing volumes about Lyndon Johnson portray a President who used everything from the promise of appointment to bald-faced political threats to win passage of the legislative agenda th

ant restlessness—that she believed carried the team. On the campaign trail, he would always add stops and speeches. He doubled his own campaign time. Hillary worked at half time; he worked at double time. He sucked in the energy from the crowds. Now that he was living alone in the White House, though, he h

naire casino magnate. Trump had HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019989 adopted a sort of 1950s Jewish uncle (tough-guy variety) delivery, with assorted Yiddishisms—Hillary Clinton, he declared, had been “shlonged” in the 2008 primary— helping to give an inarticulate man an unexpected expressiveness. Now his daughter, a de facto

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

r agreed: “As soon as she stood up to. say those words she changed her- self from a sophisticated, mysterious guiding intelligence and beauty next to Hillary Clinton to the wife of a tamished Anthony Weiner.” ; They fear Huma learned the wrong lesson from Hillary, given that Bill was a roguish genius while Weiner

965 to 1969. His success is worth remembering. When Bliss became chairman in 1965, the Republicans. were in much worse shape than in 2013: President Lyndon Johnson had won a Jand- slide re-election over Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, and the Democrats held large majorities in both houses of Congress and the state

many cookies as I could in it and then into my pocket. Suddenly there was a tap on my shoulder, “Stealing cookies from the White House, huh?” It was Hillary. She told me I didn’t have to do that. She would be happy to give me a large box to take home. The kids in my daughter’s class loved the cookies and

re, his private barber was cutting his hair. I was seated next to him while he got his haircut, and he dictated notes to me. It wasn’t as bad as what Lyndon Johnson would do, requiring aides to join him in the bathroom. While working at Kay, Scholer, I had the first fancy restaurant meal of my life. I was asked