Epstein Secrets

t. If it's a good President, then he is all-wise and all- knowing"—like the characters played by Martin Sheen in "The West EFTA00684481 Wing," and Michael Douglas in "The American President." Obama says that he is neither. "I'll tell you that watching `Lincoln' was interesting, in part because you watched wha

n in "The West EFTA00684481 Wing," and Michael Douglas in "The American President." Obama says that he

an XXL France or Germany." Obama's "long game" on foreign policy calls for traditional categories of American power and ideology to be reordered. Ben Rhodes, the deputy national-security adviser for strategic communications, told me that Washington was "trapped in very stale narratives." "In the foreig

to the Democratic National Committee, approached Douglas Band, Clinton's closest political adviser and lo

n, recently suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is primarily responsible for the failure of the Middle East peace process. 8. Ben Rhodes Behind Obama's biggest foreign-policy speeches -- his campaign address before 200,000 people in Berlin, his 2009 Cairo remarks on Middle East poli

for International Studies, and Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Davis Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. EFTA_R1_02029345 EFTA02689720

drawal total and end dates could change somewhat. No one, not even Obama's most intimate national-security aides—Tom Donilon, Denis McDonough, and Ben Rhodes—can be certain of their boss' final calculations, but key officials feel confident that the president's secret thinking will generally hold. Sorti