Carter

More Carter Redux in the Middle East

Posted on January 30, 2011January 31, 2011 by Jake Lambert | No Comments

From the outset of the Obama presidency and the emergence of the Obama Doctrine, the similarities between this Administration and that of Jimmy Carter have been striking. Like Obama, Carter trumpeted soft power and international institutions as the means to solve the most perplexing foreign policy problems. The programs of both Presidents hinged on the […]

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America the Ungovernable?

Posted on February 27, 2010February 27, 2010 by Jan Sobieski III | No Comments

In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system of unitary […]

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