Sublime

It might seem ironic that I’m calling for more government intervention.

Shimon Peres signed the accord, in secret,

Jefferson

When the president proposed reducing Social Security benefits in 1981, Congress rebuffed him.[7] Throughout Reagan’s eight years in office, antipoverty spending did not shrink. It grew and continued to grow after he left office.

John Adams said that if Washington “was not the greatest president, he was the best actor of the presidency we have ever had.”18

Washington’s understated style had an inevitable appeal. Amid gifted talkers, he was a masterful listener who characterized his role as that of “an attentive observer and witness.”28 It was slowly becoming clear that, in a fractious, boisterous gathering, a calm figure of sound judgment such as Washington could inspire confidence and serve as a uni

Relying largely on intuition and common sense, Woodin had cut through a fog of financial advice and adopted the simplest of all possible solutions: the government would simply print new money. It would be backed not by gold or silver but by the assets of the banks in the Federal Reserve system.

the apparatus controlled by the president had both the expertise and the discipline to maintain secrecy. Congress did not. Thus in foreign and security policy, the president continually accumulated more and more power in the third cycle. This did not, however, often lead to success.

Joaquin Aguirre