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<title><![CDATA[Jon Meacham - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14911.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jon Meacham]]></description><category domain="14911">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[I Miss John McCain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/10/23/morning_joes_jon_meacham_i_miss_john_mccain_republican_senators_need_to_be_more_mccainesque.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Historian Jon Meacham told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that when it comes to President Trump remodeling the White House, he wishes Republicans would be more like John McCain:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carter Was a Big Part of America&rsquo;s Soul]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The message was unmistakable. On Labor Day 1976, the traditional kickoff of the fall campaign, Jimmy Carter stood in front of Franklin D. Roosevelt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga., where the 32nd president had died in April 1945. As he opened the final months of the race...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Religion Is the Best Hope Against Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://twnews.us/us-news/why-religion-is-the-best-hope-against-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Christian season of Lent, a time of repentance and reflection, is upon us. The weeks that begin with Ash Wednesday culminate in Holy Week, a commemoration of the Passover feast in roughly the year A.D. 33, during which Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem, was condemned and crucified...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeachment Inquiry Is About Who We Are as Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/5720747/jon-meacham-trump-impeachment-inquiry/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA['The people matter, for politicians are far more often mirrors of who we are rather than molders']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan's Hopeful Farewell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/opinion/reagan-trump-speech.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His last speech as president was about his faith in America and its people. Our current president could not be more different.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush Believed in the Essential Goodness of Americans]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/5468753/george-hw-bush-jon-meacham/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was Bush who quietly but unmistakably laid the foundations for the 21st century, writes Jon Meacham]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Tennessee, a Microcosm of the Midterms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/in-tennessee-a-microcosm-of-the-midterms.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will voters pull back from Trumpian partisan warfare?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[History Shows America Will Survive the Trump Era]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/07/donald-trump-era-isnt-worst-american-history-heres-how-survive-column/578215002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans have always survived even the most divisive presidents and eras. Here's how to enlist on the side of the angels in the time of Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is More Father Coughlin Than Franklin Roosevelt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/trump-father-coughlin-roosevelt.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He could use his power over a new mass medium to unite the country. Instead, he uses it to divide us.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could the 25th Amendment Be Trump's Downfall?]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/5098402/could-the-25th-amendment-be-trumps-downfall/?xid=homepage&amp;pcd=hp-magmod</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have put it more plainly. On April 13, 1965, in the midst of a congressional debate over the proposed 25th Amendment to the Constitution dealing with presidential succession and incapacity, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Emanuel Celler of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Limits of the Reality TV Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/opinion/donald-trump-reality-tv.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He isn't the first president to understand the power of television. But he is alone in not grasping its limits.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Lee Should Go, and Washington Should Stay]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/opinion/why-lee-should-go-and-washington-should-stay.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'There will never be peace in Tennessee,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Union Gen. William T. Sherman once said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'until Forrest is dead.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Like his more celebrated remark that war is hell, Sherman was onto something. The good news in this grim period of 2017 is that reasonable Southerners may be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Hate, a History]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4904290/american-hate-a-history/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The message was clear. The fate of America '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or at least of white America, which was the only America that counted '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' was at stake. On the autumn evening of Thursday, Oct. 7, 1948, South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, the segregationist Dixiecrat nominee for President,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Business Leaders Make Good Presidents?]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4640173/business-leaders-good-presidents/?xid=homepage&amp;pcd=hp-magmod</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a brief stop, but Donald Trump wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have missed it for the world. In late October, the Republican nominee traveled to Washington for a ceremonial ribbon cutting for his new Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Jackson's Lessons for Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4591408/time-poy-donald-trump-andrew-jackson-jon-meacham/?xid=homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was dusk on Monday, Sept. 3, 1827, when the party from South Carolina drew up at the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s plantation near Nashville. One of the travelers, a young woman named Julia Ann Conner, left a diary account of her surprise at finding that Jackson, whom she had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nostalgia for the Grace of George H.W. Bush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/nostalgia-for-the-grace-of-george-hw-bush.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tea Party Tempest in Tennessee]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3051219/lamar-alexander-tea-party-tennessee-primary-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve always thought that Lamar Alexander'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Little Plaid Book, a collection of political wisdom gleaned from more than half a lifetime in the arena, is an underappreciated classic. (My favorite rule is #73, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Walk in Parades,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' followed by #74: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If it is the Mule...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FDR, Churchill, Stalin &amp; the Winding Road to D-Day]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/2814428/d-day/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[60 Yrs Since Brown v. Board, Much Work Remains]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/103002/brown-v-board-of-education-60th-anniversary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was supposed to have been a slow news day. Reporters covering the Supreme Court had been told not to expect very much on Monday, May 17, 1954, when the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s press officer shifted signals. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Reading of the segregation decisions is about to begin in the courtroom,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Presidents Judge One Another]]></title>
							<link>http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/15/the-presidents-on-the-presidents-how-they-judge-one-another/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two men could hardly have been more different. One the fatherless son of a single mother, the other a scion of the most important American political family since the Adamses; one a cool, intellectual analyst, the other an instinctive gut player who never looked back once a decision...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[50 Yrs After Bombing, Birmingham Is Resurrected]]></title>
							<link>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2151804,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Jeb Bush's Time Come?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2145994,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's one of the more interesting what-ifs of the past few decades. What would have happened if both George W. and Jeb Bush had won their gubernatorial bids in 1994? Which brother would have run for President in 2000 against Al Gore? Late in George W. Bush's second presidential term, I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Benedict XVI: A Papal Benediction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136333,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He has always been a man of paradox. A ferocious intellectual with a kindly face, a scholar in the arena, a German in Italy: Joseph Ratzinger, known to history as Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th bishop of Rome, defies easy categorization. So it was in the beginning, in the early months of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Race Is Still Obama's to Lose]]></title>
							<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/10/08/what-history-tells-us-about-obamas-chances-now/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even Richard Nixon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'s mother thought he was sick. After the first televised presidential debate in American history on Monday, Sept. 26, 1960 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a contest in which a legendarily tanned and cool John F. Kennedy appeared to best a legendarily wan and perspiring Richard M. Nixon...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Mitt: He's No Wild-Eyed Wing Nut]]></title>
							<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/10/the-truth-about-mitt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under questioning from David Gregory on NBC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Meet the Press on Sunday, Mitt Romney reverted to type '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the basically moderate Massachusetts Republican he was before he decided that he wanted to be the nominee of a party whose base has moved ever further rightward since the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Through the Looking Glass of Veep Picks]]></title>
							<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/06/through-the-looking-glass-of-veep-picks/?iid=op-main-lede</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was July 1972, and in the Black Hills of South Dakota, two men sat across from each other in Cabin 22 at the Sylvan Lake Lodge near Custer. They were the nominees of the Democratic Party for the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States, and they were players in a drama that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the American Dream Slipping Away?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2117662_2117682,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Hasn't &quot;Lost&quot; the South]]></title>
							<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/15/why-obama-hasnt-lost-the-south/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For me, perhaps the most striking tactical story of the 2008 presidential campaign was the surprising reaction to Barack Obama in the American South. As a native of the region, I was long skeptical about the Illinois Senator'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s viability in the Old Confederacy and thus about his national...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Owns bin Laden]]></title>
							<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/30/why-obama-owns-bin-laden/?iid=op-main-lede</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He learned it early. Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior. In his book Dreams from My Father, Obama vividly describes how his stepfather taught him to box in Indonesia, and how he himself still remembers the feel and smell of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Shouldn't Declare War on Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/02/why-obama-shouldnt-declare-war-on-the-supreme-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Meacham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the Supreme Court weighing the constitutionality of a central element of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s comprehensive health care reform, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a lot of talk (in the places where people talk about such things, usually unburdened by responsibility or firsthand knowledge) of making the...]]></description>
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