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Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large

quien poseía un enorme poder sobre Castillo Armas era, en efecto, su querida, Marta Borrero Parra, apodada Miss Guatemala, una mujercita joven y muy bella que, al parecer, tenía hechizado al Presidente. Éste le había puesto una casa y, decían, le consultaba sobre todo, incluso los asuntos de gobierno. De modo que Abbes García procuraría conocerla p

Bill and Hillary Clinton were policy wonks who mashed together idealism with business-friendly ideas for economic growth. Instead of speaking for the working class, the Clintons spoke about equipping workers to rise into the professional class through education and training. Their assumption was that all Americans could do what they did and be like

Yes, Libya is Clinton’s baby and she would tout it as a success story. Her success story. But it would soon become one of the most monumental foreign policy disasters of the decade. Obama and Clinton had no effective plan for post-Qaddafi Libya. In the ensuing vacuum, ISIS was born and Libya became a failed state. A breeding ground for Islamic extr

Clinton was hammered on other aspects of Libya, but it was the incoherence of the policy that hurt her the most. Every time she praised her foreign policy experience, Libya came up.

Peres subsequently served in a number of significant roles beyond his being a member of the Knesset, including minister of foreign affairs, minister of defense, minister of finance, and prime minister from 1984 to 1986. Now, committed to Rabin’s vision of peace, he pushed on with Oslo. In November and December 1995, Israel redeployed out of all the