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5 Oct 2022 Conversations with Tyler Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy
“Bush and Richard Nixon probably are the two, in my mind, who best understood what they were dealing with.”
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- Walter Russell Mead
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- 5 Oct 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Now, some questions relevant to your book, which again, is called The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. Which American president has best understood the Middle East, and then worst? Interesting. Nobody’s gotten it totally. I’d say George H.W. Bush and Richard Nixon probably are the two, in my mind, who best understood what they were dealing with. What is it they had that maybe the others didn’t?…
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