Domestic/U.S.
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As I lay in bed Wednesday morning, eyes still a bit sluggish, I grabbed the Blackberry that lay next to me. Half-consciously opening my inbox, I was floored and fully awoken by what stared back at me: The subject line of a daily brief from Foreign Policy Magazine read: “U.S. ambassador killed in Libya.” I
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It is not uncommon for crisis to define many-a-presidents. What is however uncommon is for a president to define a crisis. Great presidents have been those, who, in spite of the burdens of the time, held an opportunistic view of crisis instead of adversarial. The most mythical of them—George Washington, Abe Lincoln, and FDR—used crisis
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