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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

nt; 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 his desk was a thick briefing book, "The President's Trip to

. 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

ved, was a key leaker, if not one of the architects of the Obama administration’s continued effort to connect Trump and his team to Putin and Russia. Rhodes, many in the White House believed, was the deep state. They also believed that every time a leak was credited to “former and current officials,” Rhod

bas, Mahmoud, 231, 299 Abe, Shinzo, 106 Abraham Lincoln, USS, 182 Abramovich, Roman, 80 Adelson, Sheldo

good grace in letting this book take such a demanding place in our lives. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020120 INDEX Abbas, Mahmoud, 231, 299 Abe, Shinzo, 106 Abraham Lincoln, USS, 182 Abramovich, Roman, 80 Adelson, Sheldon, 6, 141-43, 178, 289, 309 Afghanistan, 42, 263-68, 275-76 Agalarov, Aras, 254 Agenda, The (Woodw

, 253 Republican Party, 2, 18, 30, 40-41, 81, 86, 98, 111-12, 117-21, 128, 161-67, 171-72, 201, 290, 303 fracturing of, 179-80, 253, 283, 306, 309-10 Rhodes, Ben, 41, 154, 159, 185, 215 Rice, Susan, 7, 41, 153 Rometty, Ginni, 88 Rose, Charlie, 309 Rosen, Hillary, 78 Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279

ice. One thing that was true is you did not have to belong to a church throughout the 19th century to become president, as Ingersoll often spoke of Lincoln. And it very much shows what the attitudes were during the Civil War, which was thought by many to be God's judgment. And Lincoln certainly could no

's a very smart man. He's a Brown University biology major. And so we decided, "Okay, when it gets to him, he'll veto it." BILL MOYERS: He's also a Rhodes Scholar. ZACK KOPPLIN: He's a Rhodes Scholar, yeah. And so it got to Governor Jindal with overwhelming support. And Governor Jindal started voicing

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

shington was "trapped in very stale narratives." "In the foreign-policy establishment, to be an idealist you have to be for military intervention," Rhodes went on. "In the Democratic Party, these debates were defined in the nineties, and the idealists lined up for military intervention. For the Presid

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

ord B.A. in the Honor School of Jurisprudence and then enter Law School in the United States. In those days Jewish boys (only males were eligible for Rhodes) from Brooklyn were not selected by the Rhodes Committee, and despite my academic, political and athletic accomplishments, I did not even get an inte

e no idea.” Later that evening, a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, part of an always awkward effort to imp

n you are ahead. The Best and the Brightest described the people who should be in power. A college-age Barack Obama was smitten with the book, as was Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton. Halberstam’s book defined the look and feel of White House power. His language, resonant and imposing and, often, boffo pompou

0s on battlefields in the American Civil War, after the inventor Richard Gatling sent a package of samples to the White House and convinced President Lincoln - a famous gadget freak - that their firepower might bring the Civil War to a faster close. Lincoln ordered the Army to try the guns, but Gatling’s e

lating to Affairs in Mashonaland, Matabeleand, and the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Nov 1893, 150 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018382 commander, a blood enemy of Rhodes, had warned Lobengula: “When an Englishman once has your property in his hands, then he is like a monkey that has its hands full of pumpkin seeds - i