Sentences with phrase «war time president»

What is said there is out of the movie «Canadian Bacon» where Alan Alda plays the US president, up for an election and wants to be wa war time president, so whips up fury over the Canadians to rally support to him... Hilarious movie, including John Candy, Michael Moore, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollack, Rip Torn, Jim Belushi, Steven Wright, and many more...

Not exact matches

US stocks tumbled Wednesday as President Donald Trump escalated tensions with Russia through a series of tweets, rattling investor nerves at a time when fears of a global trade war were starting to ebb.

The president then explained that he and his advisors spent «days and weeks» worth of time meeting about Syria and trying to find a way to ease the suffering and end the civil war.

«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold War foes.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Tuesday, Time Inc.'s chief content officer and Fortune president Alan Murray tried to write the famous Civil War speech by memory while being interviewed on the phone by Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove.

Traders may have been loath to go into the weekend long the market at a time when President Donald Trump is threatening to rain bombs on Syria and Wall Street still doesn't know whether the U.S. and China are in the early days of a full - blown trade war.

«After calling continuously for weeks for Director Pompeo to support President Trump's belief that the Iraq war was a mistake, and that it is time to leave Afghanistan, today I received confirmation the Director Pompeo agrees with @realDonaldTrump,» wrote Paul.

That secular bear market continued through the Vietnam War, Watergate, the oil embargo, President Nixon's resignation, and stagflation — a long and frustrating time period for stocks and the economy that rivals our problems today.

After denying any war on coal during the election, now the administration is engaged in one — and this time, unlike the President's war in Afghanistan, with what seems a genuine commitment.

Imagine George W. Bush and Barack Obama are President at the same time, both with equal ability to appoint, to declare war, and to sign bills into law.

Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..

Perhaps the lyrics apply to the last one, if we equate land - hunger with the desire for «gold,» but political history accounts of why «such - and - such a President or Congress eventually entered us into such - and - such a war» reveal time and again that a motivation of economic interest was not the reason, and seldom even the second or third reason, offered or discussed (even in the secret discussions hence uncovered by historians).

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

At the time of the Civil War, 262 of 288 college presidents were clergy.

Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

The president of Business International, Orville Freeman, describes the period following World War II, a period in which the United States solidified its relationships with dictatorships in Latin America and throughout much of the world, as an exemplary time of freedom.

Funny you should say that since the Tea Billies have accused progressives, Democrats and the President of being exactly that «traitors» and right wing governors have talked about secession which the last time I checked is an act of treason and one for which Americans had a civil war over!

The story is true to history, of course, in that former President Nixon declared political and even legal war against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam Wwar against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam WarWar.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

The last time a presidential candidate told us that God told him to run for president he started two wars, destroyed the largest economy in the world (which was healthy when he got it btw) and killed thousands of Americans.

As a matter of fact most of our most successful war - time Presidents had no prior military experience... and some of our worst Presidents had lots of it.

And why are we giving the culture of Washington new powers of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded about all the issues of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?

If it was skin color alone that mandated a black President at this time, I do wish it had been Colon Powell, or Herman Cain, or Congressman West, these men have always been leaders and uniter's, not dividers... The US today is more divided than before the Civil War... With obama, we are in deep trouble!

Lincoln is therefore today not only the model of a president committed to faithful execution of the laws and of his constitutional duties, but also the model for those who today embrace a strong view of the president's power that he holds as commander in chief in time of war.

the reason for the court's blocking of a travel restriction put in place by the President of the United States of America for purposes of national security was because the president (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what thPresident of the United States of America for purposes of national security was because the president (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what thpresident (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what they preach

«At a time when President Trump is declaring a war on women, the LGBT communities and our immigrant communities, it is imperative that we unite around issues that will protect New Yorkers and their rights,» the letter signed by all eight members of the IDC and delivered to Felder's office.

it would mean that presidents are only constitutionally allowed to set immigration policy as it relates to national security during time of war IF AND ONLY IF that president never said anything that judges disagree with

The country was riven apart by domestic political conflicts between president and parliament that at times verged on civil war.

There is a period of time where the President can authorize troops to deploy without congress declaring war or authorizing it.

The war between the president and the nation's law enforcement apparatus is unlike anything America has seen in modern times.

The president has nearly unlimited war powers for a short period of time during a conflict and does not require oversight from Congress.

I have to be honest, it seems like a damn free - for - all with zero checks and balances, and it's just a matter of time until the president unilaterally plunges the world into nuclear war.

The war of words over the economy between President John Mahama and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Running Mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has continued with the President this time questioning Dr. Bawumia's economic credentials.

This seemingly concocted report is the latest in a series of orchestrated campaign of calumny against the Commission by shadowy forces that are obviously envious of the success of the EFCC, especially at a time, when the anti-graft agency enjoys the status of the shining light of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led administration's war against corruption.

Reagan ranked third of post — World War II presidents in a 2007 Rasmussen Reports poll, fifth in an ABC 2000 poll, ninth in another 2007 Rasmussen poll, and eighth in a late 2008 poll by British newspaper The Times.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened a new front Monday in his war against President Donald Trump — this time on housing policy.

Sure a speech from the Prime Minister / President could inspire some people but most people in war times blame the government for them not succeeding at this point in time also about half the country wouldn't have voted for them.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says she's skeptical of President Donald Trump's new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, which he outlined in a prime - time address Monday night.

«The members of our country's Armed Forces who served in the Vietnam War sacrificed so much on behalf of their country, yet at the time they were not given appropriate recognition,» said JOHN ROWAN, an Elmhurst native and the national president of the Vietnam Veterans of America.

For eight long years Progressives were told that we should be respectful of Bush because it's un-patriotic to publically show disrespect to the president during war time.

That's the satirical thrust of X-Men: Days of Future Past, an enjoyably convoluted time - travel adventure that takes place mostly in a mildly anachronistic 1973, after the end of the Vietnam War and before Watergate, with the President trying to figure out what to do about America's potentially insurgent mutant population.

«We can't have an administration dictating to us our coverage just because they don't like what we print about them in our newspaper...» At a time when Donald Trump's White House has declared war not merely on the media but on «truth» itself, there's something almost quaint about the spectre of a corrupt US president attempting to quash a story, rather than the entire fourth estate.

The film works as supernatural horror at the same time as you feel the chaos and fear in everyday life during the Iran - Iraq War as experienced by people like the rest of us and not by presidents and kings.

At the same time, President Coin (Julianne Moore) becomes more transparent in her efforts to use Katniss as a propaganda weapon in the war for control of Panem — with Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) at her side.

To force the policy upon the president, she introduces an ingredient into her product that will infect and ultimately kill every drug user in the world unless they get her antidote in time — which makes no sense, and which the president seems to believe would be doing him a favor, effectively ending the war on drugs in one fell swoop.

Two - time Academy Award winner Daniel Day - Lewis once again disappears into his latest role, this time as President Abraham Lincoln in «Lincoln,» director Steven Spielberg's dramatization of the 16th president's final months in office and his actions to end the Civil War, abolish slavery, and unite thePresident Abraham Lincoln in «Lincoln,» director Steven Spielberg's dramatization of the 16th president's final months in office and his actions to end the Civil War, abolish slavery, and unite thepresident's final months in office and his actions to end the Civil War, abolish slavery, and unite the country.

Sharing screen time with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lego J.J. Abrams adds troop command and blaster marksmanship to his already impressive resume.

Based on the book «Truth and Duty: The Press, The President and the Power of Privilege» by Pulitzer and Emmy winning television producer Mary Mapes and detailing the explosive story of then President George W. Bush's questionable history with the National Guard during the Vietnam War, Truth is a riveting piece of cinema with a powerhouse performance by two - time Academy Award ® winner Cate Blanchett as Mapes.

Marvel Studios» president Kevin Feige said that while the Wasp was in early drafts of Captain America: Civil War, they were removed to give Hope Van Dyne's debut as the Wasp more time and prominence.

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