Epstein Secrets

) reports a bipartisan group of 72 House lawmakers have written to US Trade Representative Tai asking the Administration "to seek the elimination of Vietnam's tariffs on American pork and address other restrictions as it engages with the Southeast Asian country over currency and trade practices." Vietna

n's Approach To Oval Office Art "Distinct" From Predecessors. A New York limes (5/5, Buchanan, Stevens, 20.6M) analysis reports that "the art in the Oval Office is ever-present, carefully chosen and deliberately placed adding historical weight, silently commenting on the moment, the present, now more than e

loodier global conflict. Alas, for most Americans, the "Great War" holds little interest, particularly compared with the Civil War, World War =1 and Vietnam — all conflicts remembered as titanic moral struggles t=at transformed the nation. This neglect has given rise to some serious misconceptions about

Comey, which Comey found out about on TV and that Trump asked Comey to shut down the FBI investigation into Michael Flynn. Wednesday: He met in the=Oval Office with Russian diplomats, including an accused Russian spy, where the President bragged ab=ut firing the FBI Director. Thursday: He admitted he fired

ce. 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 term. Gerald Ford (who was never el

that the president has been qualified for the power of life and death by his reading. Perhaps he once taught the texts and their arguments; but the Oval Office is not a seminar room. This raises an interesting scruple about the relation of ideas to power. It is that the relation should never be unmediated

e an example of the former; but to challenge under the same circumstances Senator J. William Fulbright for his opposition to Administration policy in Vietnam is considered by insiders to be a frightening instance of the latter. The more Jacqueline Kennedy has tried to erase the crudeness of her husband's s

ldeman who consciously sabotaged the research on the Hiss chapter in Six Crises. On one occasion | was meeting with a group of blind veterans in the Oval Office. | wanted to display my empathy with them, so | began describing the Presidential Seal, which was woven into the carpet we happened to be standing on

troops we lose. War cost esti- mates usually don't include those things. But they have to be paid. We still are paying for %rid War II, Korea and Vietnam, but histo- rians and budget planners have closed the books. The costs turn up now in the Department of Veterans Affairs budget. Every veteran and

in him at an intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach. But from all appearances. they did not become close friends until after Clinton left the Oval Office and moved to New York. Epstein has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid, the