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r similar circumstances that Obama came in, but he didn't focus on the economy the way we did," Baker said. "By the beginning of the third year of Ronald Reagan's term, we were coming out really good, creating jobs, big economic growth, because we put in place pro-growth economic policy," he said. "Well, a p

es that Baker had once claimed that Ronald Reagan told him to hold no national security meetings in his first 100 days of his presidency. In fact, Reagan had national security briefings every day and intermittent National Security Council meetings, Baker said. "I think it was misunderstood a little b

apegoat for the Sinai attack David Ignatius Article 2. TIME As the Sinai Goes, So Too the Golan Heights? Tony Karon Article 3. Foreign Policy Jim Baker: Realists have been successful stewards of foreign policy Josh Rogin Article 4. The Washington Post Ignoring foreign policy won't make it go awa

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the radical idea of "rollback4,=9D in the Cold War and made their peace with the more cautious Cold War li=eral policy of containment. In the 1960s, Reagan denounced Social Se=urity and Medicare as tyrannical, but as president he did not try to repea= and replace these popular programs. When he gave up

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the spot, many of whom he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and prote

hiefs have included Richard Nixon’s H. R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clinton’s Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, and John Podesta; George W. Bush’s Andrew Card;

f of staff in name—the unimportant one—and various others, more important, in practice, ensuring both chaos and Trump’s own undisputed independence. Jim Baker, chief of staff for both Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and almost everybody’s model for managing the West Wing, advised Priebus not to take the