Sublime

President Carter signed an executive order directing that federal regulations be written “simply and clearly.” President Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, urged the nation’s lawyers to replace “a lot of legalese” with “small, old words that all people understand”—words like “right” and “wrong” and “justice.”

He turned Truman’s challenge around: the issue was not his inexperience but the older generation’s monopoly on power.

Sérgio Moro, the one-time star judge of the Lava Jato investigation, was one minister whose allegiance looked likely to come into question. Moro had controversially joined Bolsonaro’s team in 2018 to take over the justice portfolio. He had argued that his presence in the administration was the best guarantee that the clean-up of political corruptio

On January 4, 1955, Lyndon Johnson was re-elected—by acclamation—to the leadership of the Senate Democrats. As he had become, at the age of forty-four, the youngest Minority Leader in the history of the United States, so he was now, at forty-six, the youngest Majority Leader in the history of the United States.

William expected four things from his investments: a low multiple of earnings, a high growth rate, strong asset backing and a favorable trading outlook.

Unemployment had already topped a million, the highest it had been since the 1930s, and in January 1974 Britain was officially in recession for the first time since the end of the Second World War. There were other major changes to life in Britain in these uncertain years. The currency was decimalized and, after years of trying—and a 356–224 vote i

The measure that gave Marshall the authority to circumvent it was concealed as a rider to the Army’s annual appropriation bill.32

It was also during Johnson’s Presidency that there developed the widespread mistrust of the President that was symbolized by the phrase, coined during his administration, “credibility gap.” And if, during the long evolution from a “constitutional” to an “imperial” Presidency, there was a single administration in which the balance tipped decisively,