The president does not just share Irish roots with John, Robert and Ted Kennedy – he also wants to lead America in the world
It was a popular Washington sport: find the past president who best explained Donald Trump. There was a touch of Andrew Jackson’s populism, a dash of Richard Nixon’s skulduggery, a sprinkling of Ronald Reagan’s myth-making. But now all that is over, who are the closest matches to Joe Biden?
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Whether it was space or civil rights or other issues, JFK saw them through the prism of foreign policy and the cold war
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Ted, in the aftermath of Bobby’s death, exerted enormous influence on virtually every foreign challenge the US faced
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The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby and Ted Remade America’s Empire is published in the US by Potomac Books