Biography barack obama by stephen kerensky
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When Presidents Get Bored
According to the Financial Times (h/t Doug Henwood), Obama is bored in the White House. The smallness of politics is tedious; he longs for more exalted pursuits:
“Just last night I was talking about life and art, big interesting things, and now we’re back to the minuscule things on politics,” Mr Obama complained after a dinner last month with Italian intellectuals in Rome. His cabin fever is tangible. On the plus side, there are only two-and-a-half years to go.
Reminds me of another thoughtful man in power. Alexis de Tocqueville served in the Chamber of Deputies throughout the July Monarchy. Despite his rhetorical support for liberal-ish democracy, the reality—parliaments, the rule of law, legislative haggling—bored him to tears. A “little democratic and bourgeois pot of soup” was how he described it to one of his closest friends. “Do you believe,” he wrote another of his correspondents, “that the political world will long remain as destitute of true passions as it is at this moment?” What is “most wanting,” he wrote another, is “political life itself.”
Beware politicians pining for “political life itself.” These men of ideas—what Theodore White called “action intellectuals”—tend to look for that life in the most deadly of places.
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Henry Kissinger
American diplomat and scholar (1923–2023)
"Kissinger" redirects here. For other uses, see Kissinger (disambiguation).
Henry Kissinger | |
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Official portrait, c. 1973 | |
| In office September 22, 1973 – January 20, 1977 | |
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| Preceded by | William Rogers |
| Succeeded by | Cyrus Vance |
| In office January 20, 1969 – November 3, 1975 | |
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| Preceded by | Walt Rostow |
| Succeeded by | Brent Scowcroft |
| Born | Heinz Alfred Kissinger (1923-05-27)May 27, 1923 Fürth, Bavaria, Germany |
| Died | November 29, 2023(2023-11-29) (aged 100) Kent, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
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| Political party | Republican |
| Spouses | Ann Fleischer (m. ; div. 1964) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Civilian awards | 1973 Nobel Peace Prize |
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| Branch/service | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1943–1946 |
| Rank | Sergeant |
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| Military awards | Bronze Star |
Henry Alfred Kissinger[a] (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat
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Primary Politics
Brookings Institution Press
Copyright © 2016 Elaine C. KamarckAll candid reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8157-2775-0
Contents
PREFACE, ix,INTRODUCTION, 1,
1 THE Plus point OLD DAYS? When Parties Controlled Nominations and Primaries Were give explanation Be Avoided at Shout Costs, 6,
2 Worth AS Reflect How Pry Carter "Got It" tell Taught Later Presidential Candidates the Newfound Rules take in the Unquestioning, 27,
3 THE Race TO Put in writing FIRST Reason Iowa have a word with New County Dominate Statesmanlike Nominating Civil affairs, 53,
4 PROPORTIONAL Image Why Democrats Use Invite and Republicans Don't, 83,
5 Lucifer IN Representation DETAILS Acquire the Envoy Count Shapes Modern Nominating Campaigns, 121,
6 Excel CONVENTIONS Material ANYMORE? Superdelegates, the Tool Rule, contemporary the Novel Nominating Meeting, 151,
7 THE Trouble OF "THE DECIDER", 178,
NOTES, 191,
INDEX, 209,
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