pompous when he should have been contrite, oblivious to both current events and public thought, and living in a sheltered past. In Shall We Wake the President, Tevi Troy, a presidential historian and former senior White House aide and deputy secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, looks at the evolving role of the president in dealing with disasters, and looks at how our presidents have handled disasters throughout our history. But he was a lousy president, Strauss explains, for a host of reasons, some of which have a whiff of Trump to them: “a poor chooser of associates. House and Senate, an envoy to Russia and Britain, and secretary of state. In Shall We Wake the President, Tevi Troy, a presidential historian and former senior White House aide and deputy secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, looks at the evolving role of the president in dealing with disasters, and looks at how our presidents have handled disasters throughout our history. Indeed, Buchanan’s CV was Hillary-esque, including stints as a Pennsylvania state legislator, a member of the U.S. Ever.,” his new biography of the 15th president. presidents ever, “may well have been the most qualified man - at least through his governmental resume - to ever run for president,” journalist Robert Strauss writes in “Worst. James Buchanan, who presided over a financial panic and Southern secession and is deservedly regarded as among the worst U.S. But deep political and policy experience, by themselves, are hardly enough to make a president great. Hillary Clinton’s résumé was one of the campaign’s easy media narratives.
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