NR Daily: Ignoring the Lessons of Effective Presidents

Who have been the most successful presidents in the past 80 years? Most successful, that is, in framing issues and advancing their policies, achieving foreign-policy success, winning re-election, and maintaining high job approval. My nominees are Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan. They had in common many things: winning smiles, confident optimism, a seeming sympathy with ordinary Americans. Together they won eight presidential nominations and eight general elections. There were personal connections among the three. Reagan was, and remained all his life, an enthusiastic fan of Roosevelt's ...

August 04 2017

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Ignoring the Lessons of Effective Presidents Michael Barone Who have been the most successful presidents in the past 80 years? Most successful, that is, in framing issues and advancing their policies, achieving foreign-policy success, winning re-election, and maintaining high job approval. My nominees are Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan. They had in... READ MORE Rise of the Young Traditionalists Jeff Cimmino Young Americans are usually thought of as decidedly liberal. This is an oversimplified picture. A sizeable minority of Millennials identify as conservative. Despite some evidence that Millennial... Get Government Out of Discrimination in College Admissions David Harsanyi According to the New York Times, the civil-rights division of the Trump administration's Justice Department is going to ramp up investigating and sue universities over affirmative-action... ADVERTISEMENT It's High Time Columbia's Mattress Girl Was Discredited Mona Charen If you haven't heard of the "mattress girl," it's not for lack of trying among liberal opinion-shapers. Emma Sulkowicz, who dragged a blue mattress around Columbia University's campus in 2014 to... The Anomaly of American Immigration Max Bloom In the first half of 2017, the United States dispensed slightly more than 560,000 green cards. Looking over the numbers yields a sort of awe at the breadth of American immigration: The biggest... Mueller's Grand Jury: What It Means Andrew C. McCarthy The most significant conclusion we can draw from news that a grand jury has been impaneled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is that the so-called Russia investigation, officially, is a criminal... Don't Arm Ukraine Michael Brendan Dougherty When they have command of their senses, U.S. policymakers tend to think better of involving our nation deeply in Ukraine. So this week's calls from lawmakers and policy wonks to arm Ukraine are... ADVERTISEMENT Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy Stephen Moore & Kathleen Hartnett White 'The global war against fossil fuels is in fact a war against progress, prosperity, and the poor. No one has ever explained it better than Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White.' - Jay Lehr, RedState LEARN MORE Top Shots Defending America ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.