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… perform. Minimizing currency manipulation To implement the president’s commitment to halting currency manipulation, it’s … latitude than the U.S. to react. In this context, the president must avoid officially declaring countries as …

The new administration’s key economic objective is to sustain economic growth in the United States. Accomplishing this objective requires a growing global economy. To achieve this precondition, the administration must establish a policy framework to coordinate macroeconomic policies, engage with international financial institutions, and support financial regulatory institutions. Accordingly, the Trump Administration should convene a high-level meeting of finance ministers of the industrial countries to implement cooperative reflation of the global economy, much along the lines of the 1985 Plaza Accord, which ratified the systematic depreciation of the U.S. dollar.

'Finance a Little Kennedy Write-In'

… candidate in the November 1972 presidential election, President Nixon decided to meddle in the New Hampshire …

'I’ll Spend the Goddamn Money'

… Speaking with Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Jr., President Johnson explained his philosophy on the Great …

'The FBI Has Found Three Bodies'

… assistant director Cartha D. “Deke” DeLoach phoned President Johnson to let him know that agents had discovered …

'You Give Me Strength'

… recorded conversation on the Johnson White House tapes, President Johnson spoke with former first lady Jacqueline … B. “Jackie” Kennedy ten days after the assassination of President John F. “Jack” Kennedy. …

'We’re Going to Carry the South'

… call, Lady Bird and Lynda Bird Johnson reported to President Johnson on their experience in the Palmetto State … aboard the Lady Bird Special campaign train. Meanwhile, President Johnson was in Chicago for the night after a day of …

'We Made a Little Progress There'

… the Glassboro summit with Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin, President Johnson called former president Dwight D. Eisenhower to brief him on those three …

'I Can’t Say That Strongly Enough'

… Reviewing the logic behind the blockade of Cuba, President Kennedy instructed his advisers, including …

Margaret Brennan

… the first American television interview with South Korean President Park Geun-hye following the 2013 uptick in North …

'He’d Have Been Beat'

… had given after winning a US Senate seat from New York, President Johnson complained that Kennedy had failed to … Bill Moyers and McGeorge “Mac” Bundy sought to still the President’s pique. …

The long-ago invasion that offers clues on Russia's threat to Ukraine

… the 1823 French invasion of Spain suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s worries may be far deeper. He, …

When France invaded Spain over fears of having a liberal democracy on its border, writes Senior Faculty Fellow John Owen.

'That’s What the Democratic Party’s For'

… During the 1964 Democratic National Convention, President Johnson was so despondent over the Mississippi … Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. and United Automobile Workers president Walter P. Reuther. …

Turning 'Tax-Eaters' into 'Taxpayers'

… and just over three months before the Election of 1964, President Johnson spoke with House Appropriations Committee … enabling legislation for Johnson's War on Poverty. The President explained that his approach would …

Are we ready for the next nuclear era?

… number of similar weapons in the U.S. inventory. In 2018, President Putin announced several exotic nuclear …

Cold War lessons apply to new nuclear competition with Russia and China, writes Eric Edelman.

'You Both Went to the Same Country?'

… In the wake of the aborted coup against South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, President Kennedy dispatched a fact-finding team to evaluate …

'Our Friendship Was Never Severed'

… On the night of 31 March 1968, President Johnson stunned the nation by announcing that “I … the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” Later that evening, Johnson took a poignant call …

Policy Accelerators

… cycles of global engagement since the 1970s. While some presidents have sought to disengage globally, events such as …

'I’m Not Lying About That One'

… Longhorns win the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day 1964, President Johnson talked football, family, and drinking with … Jr. [D–Georgia]. Celebrating alongside the President at the LBJ Ranch, Lady Bird Johnson and A. …

Dancing with China

… positioned for continued leadership in Asia. Although President Trump did not mention China in his Inaugural … in trade and investment policy. In his inaugural address, President Trump did not mention China, but his sweeping … its power can accomplish and what it might cost to commit. President Truman’s Berlin Airlift in 1948–49 was an excellent …

The problem with an isolationist interpretation of “America First” is that America is not isolated. Global withdrawal means cutting the bonds of mutual interest. From its beginnings, the U.S. has been a commercial nation, and it has been the political and economic center of the global order for the last 70 years. Making America great again requires global leadership, and leadership is interactive. China is not an obstacle to American leadership, but China policy is its greatest challenge.

America’s nuclear missiles need major modernization

… launched on false warnings; that they force the hand of a president to launch them in case of attack; and that they do …

America’s nuclear forces have not kept pace with developments in Russian and China, respectively the world’s largest and third-largest nuclear powers.