The GOP nominee “reminds me a lot of early Mussolini,” Yoo told The Washington Post in October 2016—in a bad way, that is. And that truth is there is nowhere to move on to. This book is a detailed and fascinating delineation of …

Includes inventory and ordering. The answer is in the book’s subtitle: It’s the “fight for presidential power.” You earn your laurels by defending the office’s prerogatives—genuine or imagined—thereby keeping the flame of “energy in the executive” alive for future presidents.
■, This article appeared in the Books & arts section of the print edition under the headline "All the presidents’ man", Sign up to our free daily newsletter, The Economist today, Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.”. “The Man Who Ran Washington” describes a distinguished statesman’s career and guile. and publications. Widely regarded as the most effective chief of staff ever, Mr Baker ran the White House for both Reagan and George H.W.

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Even the narrower versions of unitary executive theory, which hold that the president has an indefeasible right to direct and remove executive branch officers, present vast opportunities for mischief. The ruling, Yoo lamented in National Review, “makes it easy for presidents to violate the law”—and hard for their successors to undo those violations. Yoo’s hardly blind to Trump’s character flaws. Receive periodic updates on Cato research, events,

If he stayed out he could be remembered as the most important secretary of state since Henry Kissinger, a diplomat tested by great events and equal to them. In fact, it’s difficult to think of a modern president who wasn’t a defender‐​in‐​chief by the standards Yoo sets out. The Trump presidency has been a stress test for maximalist theories of presidential power.

Cato Institute “Everyone knew that he was Bush’s good friend and that when Baker spoke, he was speaking with the authority of the president.”, His own name appeared on just one ballot: in the race to be attorney-general of Texas in 1978.

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The Trump presidency has been a stress test for maximalist theories of presidential power.

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Through large stretches of the book, Yoo even forgets what he’s just written, as when he deploys the same damned passage from the Federalist three times in seven pages. But even if what was really afoot was a Nixonian attempt to screw a political enemy, Trump was also “protecting the right of future presidents to develop and carry out an effective foreign policy.”. Just two weeks after Trump’s inauguration, Yoo took to The New York Times to sound the alarm about “Executive Power Run Amok.” Later that year, Yoo all but called for Trump’s impeachment. Yet it is a masterclass in political biography. After his Oval Office visit in July, Yoo reported that Trump is “really on top of things,” and, despite what you hear, not all “Nixonian in the bunker and paranoid and dark.” So we’ve got that going for us.

Cut in half. Ms Glasser (of the New Yorker) and her co-author and husband (of the New York Times) are well-placed to chronicle Mr Baker’s life.

Trump’s efforts in this direction so far have been unsubtle, to say the least, but they reveal how much rests on a bed of unenforceable “norms.” Alexander Hamilton’s argument for “energy in the executive” in Federalist 70 took as a given that we’d have a president vulnerable to “the restraints of public opinion,” not one for whom, as has been said of Trump, “shamelessness is a superpower.”.

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Bush, a fellow blue-blood, became his doubles partner, and the book explores their lifelong friendship.

“If friends had told me on January 21, 2017, that I would write a book on Donald Trump as a defender of the Constitution, I would have questioned their sanity, he wrote.” He found Trump’s personal behavior repellent and “saw him as a populist, even a demagogue, who had not prepared for the heavy responsibilities of the presidency.” But then our 45th president turned out to be a “stout defender of our original governing document” and the Framers’ glorious vision of “an independent, vigorous executive.”. DURING THE confusion that followed the attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981, Alexander Haig, the secretary of state, proclaimed at the White House podium: “I am in control.” Breathless and sweating, Haig reassured no one.

In consecutive paragraphs, he’ll swerve from calling Clinton and Obama hypocrites for waging war without congressional approval to lauding Trump for his drive‐​by bombings of Syria. However, they also shocked the world when they rewrote the timeline for where we thought our ancestors started to be self-aware, capable of complex thought, used fire, and performed rituals. By Peter Baker and Susan Glasser.Doubleday; 720 pages; $35.

Slaughter line. The gambit centers on the Supreme Court’s recent decision, in DHS v. Regents of the University of California, blocking Trump’s reversal of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, itself an arguably illegal use of executive power. Mexico’s chroniclers tell the other half of history, An indictment of the CIA, through the lives of four spies.