Epstein Secrets

ional-security briefings to his ranch, in Stonewall, Texas, by government aircraft. It worked; Johnson, who was alienated from his party because of Vietnam, mostly kept quiet during Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, against George McGovern. Ronald Reagan treated the recently disgraced Nixon with defere

vention, in remarks prepared without participation from the Obama campaign. "Barack Obama is ready to be President of the United States," he said. David Axelrod describes the Presidents' relationship as improved. "Would I be truthful if I said to you that we went through a long and difficult campaign in 200

0.52M), Henry Olsen describes the evacuation of American from the US Embassy in Afghanistan as an ominous echo from the fall of Saigon.- The loss in Vietnam was followed by years of U.S. retreats and defeats, culminating in the Iran hostage crisis." Olsen argues President Biden and congressional Democrat

tory is around the corner." Overall, Rubin writes, Biden "gave the best speech under the circumstances." However, some had a more nuanced reaction. David Axelrod said on CNN (8/16, 559K), "I thought that his case for why we had to get out was strong, it was compelling, and I think he did to do that as well. B

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

fter. But the ostensible purpose of a political campaign is to articulate for the public what a candidate will do if he prevails. "It's a tension," David Axelrod, Obama's longtime political adviser, said. "On the one hand, you don't want to be presumptuous in assuming a second term. But campaigns are about