Epstein Secrets

nry J. Kaiser • Lyndon Johnson owned an Amphibious car and used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure. • Abraham Lincoln originally created the Secret Service as part of the Department of Treasury to cut down on the amount of counterfeit money. • Teddy Roosevelt gave

s lake screaming about brake failure. • Abraham Lincoln originally created the Secret Service as part of

." - Will Rogers "I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close." - Henry J. Kaiser • Lyndon Johnson owned an Amphibious car and used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure. • Abraham Lincoln originally creat

the Yale political scientist. Early Presidents argued on behalf of their policies with appeals to the Constitution rather than to the people. Even Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, who asked for sweeping new executive powers, did so with strictly constitutional arguments rather than with populist ones.

rom a shelf: "American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War," William Safire's "Lend Me Your Ears," and a collection of Lincoln's speeches and writings. "You can actually lose yourself for an hour or two in that stuff," he said. The final two years of a second term need not

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

. Bush in flight gear on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln proclaiming the end of the Iraq War, he intoned,

the most famous neo-Nazi in America since George Lincoln Rockwell, had returned to a seat in the atrium of

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

iciently annoyed. The break with Israel came early. In those unforgettable early days when President Obama was being hailed by the press as a new Lincoln and Roosevelt, the White House believed that it could force Israel to declare a total settlement freeze to restart negotiations with the Palestinia

grand strategy would demonstrate once and for all that liberal Democrats were capable stewards of American foreign policy. The bad memories of the Lyndon Johnson and EFTA_R1_00441461 EFTA01964622 Jimmy Carter presidencies would at last be laid to rest; with the public still unhappy with George W. Bush's f

licans to a social occasion, he is sometimes rebuffed. In the fall of 2012, he organized a screening at the White House of Steven Spielberg's film "Lincoln." Spielberg, the cast, and the Democratic leadership found the time to come. Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and three other Republicans declined th

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

saw the flag of that slave-owning dictator on the Lincoln Monument, I got angry and tore it down. I was imm

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