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The Obama presidency and Dennis McDonough, White House Chief of Saff

01/13/2016

To understand the Obama presidency one has to understand the people worund him, including Dennis McDonough. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post describes his encounter with McDonough in Jan. 2016, with McDonough being very careful about a choice of words, and seeing him as very cautious- way more cautious than Obama, says Milbank. This may explain some of the decisions taken during the second term of the Obama presidency, including foreign policy, which contrast greatly with the decisiveness of Clinton, and even more with Truman, Democrats who preceded Obama and acted decisively in the Balkans for Clinton and Berlin, Greece, Korea for Truman.

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