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The buck stops short
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the pell-mell rush in some quarters to equate the IRS scandal with Watergate, a question that featured prominently in the latter is bubbling up. That would be then-Sen. Howard Baker's query about Richard Nixon: "What did the president...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Politics, Joe Biden, Ronald Reagan
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Damage control again
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Crime, Law and Justice, International Military Interventions
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Benghazi hearing give GOP another chance to target Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, The Washington Post
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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- When the storm of administration scandal first hit President Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS...Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, White House, Taxation
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President Biden? History says no
I read with interest Jules Witcover's recent column regarding Vice President Joe Biden ("Could Biden benefit from Clinton's handling of Benghazi?" May 14). He infers that the Benghzai scandal could cost Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential...
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Politics, Martin van Buren, Elections
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A stain on the Democratic brand
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- One consequence of presidential nominee Mitt Romney's loss last November was an internal autopsy on the reputation of the Republican Party itself. Questions were raised whether its "brand" had been seriously damaged as excessively...Tags: Mitt Romney, Central Intelligence Agency, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama's revealing reflections
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Probing questions at presidential news conferences sometimes have a way of getting their principals to reflect on their state of mind -- and at the same time the state their presidency, particularly when things aren't going well. Back in...Tags: Television, Interior Policy, Entertainment, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Should we continue to be the indispensable nation?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In Hillary Clinton's farewell remarks in February on stepping down as President Obama's secretary of state, she echoed one of her predecessors, Madeleine Albright, declaring America to be "the indispensable nation." "We are the force for...Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Iraq
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Benghazi yet again
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The debate over the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya that briefly enlivened the 2012 presidential campaign will be revived today (Wednesday) in a hearing before a House committee exploring allegations that the...Tags: Mitt Romney, Interior Policy, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control
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Obama's uncertain trumpet
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In President Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Interior Policy, Budget Control Act of 2011, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Can Hagel reshape the Pentagon?
Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who survived a stormy confirmation hearing to become the new secretary of defense, had a coming-out party of sorts last week before the National Defense University, the government's graduate...
Tags: Republican Party, Joe Biden, U.S. Military, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Iraq
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Honoring the 43rd president
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- To nobody's surprise, all four living former presidents were on their best behavior the other day at the dedication of the library and museum named for the latest of them, George W. Bush, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The...Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton
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Apr 28, 2013
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