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February 16, 2015

TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day

Today is Presidents’ Day. It is a TWE tradition to recognize the forty-three men—and they have all been men—who have been president on Presidents’ Day with the following essay. If you are lucky enoug…

President George W. Bush meets with former Presidents and President-elect Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters)

February 15, 2016

TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day

Today is Presidents’ Day. It is a TWE tradition to recognize the forty-three men—and they have all been men, though that may change next January 20—who have been president on Presidents’ Day by posti…

Presidents

February 20, 2017

Elections and Voting
TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day

Today is Presidents’ Day. It is a TWE tradition to recognize the forty-four men—and they have all been men—who have been president on Presidents’ Day with the following essay. If you are lucky enough…

The Presidential Seal in the White House in Washington

April 19, 2012

Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: General Douglas MacArthur’s Speech to Congress

Americans love generals. We have elected twelve of them president. But for a president, generals can be an enormous pain—and a political threat. James K. Polk worried (rightly) that Winfield Scott wa…

lindsay macarthur speech 2012 04-19

December 2, 2011

You Might Have Missed: Cyber Attacks, Syria, and Donald Rumsfeld

US President Bush escorts Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld from the Oval Office in Washington on August 11, 2006 (Courtesy Reuters/Kevin Lamarque). - Sari Horwitz, Shyamantha Asokan, and Julie Tate, “T…

 US President Bush escorts Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld from the Oval Office in Washington on August 11, 2006 (Courtesy Reuters/Kevin Lamarque).