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<title><![CDATA[Mark Landler - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17300.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Landler]]></description><category domain="17300">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Keir Starmer on the Cusp of Power in Britain]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/02/from-courtroom-to-downing-street-keir-starmer-is-on-the-cusp-of-power/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's Labour Party, nodded sympathetically as a young mother recalled, in harrowing terms, how she]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Unites Washington Against His Troop Withdrawals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/us/politics/trump-syria-afghanistan-withdraw.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So chaotic was Mr. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision-making process; so transparent his appeal to his political base; and so lacking in a cogent explanation to allies or the public that the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s move short-circuited what many say is a much-needed national debate about the future of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Withdraws U.S. From 'One-Sided' Iran Nuclear Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/world/middleeast/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mr. Trump's decision, while long anticipated and widely telegraphed, plunges America's relations with European allies into deep uncertainty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Firing Tillerson, Trump Molds Cabinet in His Own Image]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/politics/trump-tillerson-pompeo-america-first.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mr. Tillerson's dismissal pulls the White House even further out of the economic and foreign policy mainstream and closer to the nationalist ideas that animated Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, the Insurgent, Breaks w/70 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/politics/trump-world-diplomacy.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has transformed the world's view of the United States from an anchor of the international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Very Friendly' Talk w/Duterte Stuns Aides &amp; Critics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/us/politics/trump-duterte.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' When President Trump called President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on Saturday, White House officials saw it as part of a routine diplomatic outreach to Southeast Asian leaders. Mr. Trump, characteristically, had his own ideas.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bold, Unpredictable Foreign Policy Lifts Trump, Has Risks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/politics/trump-foreign-policy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It took a few moments, but Mr. Xi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s eyes widened in surprise, and he asked his translator to repeat what was said, according to three people who spoke with Mr. Trump after that night two weeks ago. This was exactly the response he was hoping to elicit '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' surprise, uncertainty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Trump and the Turf War Transition]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/us/politics/obama-trump-turf-war-transition-israel.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' President-elect Donald J. Trump and President Obama have been unfailingly polite toward each other since the election. But with Mr. Trump staking out starkly different positions from Mr. Obama on Israel and other sensitive issues, and the president acting aggressively...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In UN Farewell, Obama Paints Stark Choices for Unsettled World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/world/barack-obama-unga-2016-united-nations.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' It was President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s last appearance on the marble dais of the United Nations General Assembly hall, and his farewell speech on Tuesday revealed a man whose eye was fixed as much on the next seven weeks of the American political campaign as on his place in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html?_r=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton sat in the hideaway study off her ceremonial office in the State Department, sipping tea and taking stock of her first year on the job. The study was more like a den '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' cozy and wood-paneled, lined with bookshelves that displayed mementos from Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s three...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Shake Up Stops at One]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/politics/hagels-departure-tightens-white-house-hold-on-national-security-policy.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Shortly after President Obama announced the resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the White House on Monday, he walked over to a meeting of his entire National Security Council staff, where he told the embattled group that they were critical to an ambitious...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Questions Rise on White House's Ability to Cope]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/mounting-crises-raise-questions-on-capacity-of-obamas-team.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' One day this month, as the nation shuddered with fears of an Ebola outbreak and as American warplanes pounded Sunni militants in Syria, President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, invited a group of foreign policy experts to the White House Situation Room...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Turns to Liberal Interventionism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/politics/2-advisers-known-as-interventionists-but-quiet-on-syria.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In naming Susan E. Rice and Samantha Power to key national security posts, President Obama has turned to two prominent advocates of liberal interventionism, a foreign-policy credo that calls for the United States to act aggressively to defend human rights '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' by military means, if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Candidates Make Final Please, Legal Battles Begin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/us/politics/candidates-make-final-dash-as-race-winds-down.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Seeks to Recapture His Mantle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/us/politics/obama-on-a-weekend-march-tries-to-recapture-his-mantle.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DUBUQUE, Iowa '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' If anything gets under President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s skin in the final, fraught days of this campaign, it is Mitt Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempt to expropriate the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'change'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' label, which Mr. Obama all but trademarked in his historic run for the White House four years ago....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Says Romney Is Being Dishonest Auto Bailout]]></title>
							<link>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/obama-says-romney-is-being-dishonest-about-auto-bailout/?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Benghazi Attack Becomes Subject of Strong Words]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/us/politics/attack-on-us-mission-in-benghazi-becomes-subject-of-strongest-words.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Mitt Romney tried to use the White House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s shifting accounts of the attack on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya, to paint a broad indictment of President Obama as commander in chief. But Mr. Obama fired back, accusing Mr. Romney of politicizing a tragedy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Campaign Insists It Feels &quot;Good&quot; About State of Race]]></title>
							<link>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/obama-campaign-feels-good-about-state-of-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nevada Offers Stark Backdrop for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/politics/in-struggling-nevada-the-president-prepares.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HENDERSON, Nev. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' Las Vegas might seem the last place a presidential candidate would choose to spend three days of sober, nose-to-the-grindstone debate preparation. But since Sunday, President Obama has been encamped 17 miles from the neon excess of the Strip, in a palm-fringed,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shifting Reports on Libya May Cost Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/us/politics/shifting-reports-on-libya-killings-may-cost-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Obama administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s shifting accounts of the fatal attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, have left President Obama suddenly exposed on national security and foreign policy, a field where he had enjoyed a seemingly unassailable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Poised for Fight With GOP Over Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/us/politics/obama-seeks-2013-tax-cuts-within-limits.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his re-election chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000.Mr. Obama plans to make his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Promotes a Long View on Jobs]]></title>
							<link>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/obama-promotes-a-long-view-on-jobs/?hp&amp;gwh=1442A1C8A7693402F7C9B4287AC1F990</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the heels of another anemic employment report, President Obama found himself acknowledging again that the economy was not generating enough jobs, that the recovery was not taking hold fast enough, and that too many Americans lacked basic financial security.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'It'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s still tough out...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Weak Job Numbers Become Instant Campaign Fodder]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/politics/job-numbers-become-instant-campaign-fodder.html?_r=1&amp;hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Mitt Romney responded to Friday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s weaker-than-expected job numbers with a sweeping denunciation, declaring it a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'terrible and very disappointing report'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' evidence of an economy that is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'slowing down, not speeding up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama to Target Congress in Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/us/politics/obama-to-focus-on-congress-and-economy-in-2012-campaign.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is heading into his re-election campaign with plans to step up his offensive against an unpopular Congress, concluding that he cannot pass any major legislation in 2012 because of Republican hostility toward his agenda.Mr. Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election-year strategy is an attempt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seeing a Ripple in Jewish Vote]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/us/politics/obama-israel-policies-may-cost-democrats-votes.html?_r=2&amp;hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not since Jimmy Carter in 1980 has a Democrat running for president failed to win a lopsided majority of the Jewish vote. This has been true during times of peace or war, and even when there has been deep acrimony between the White House and the Israeli government.Republicans see a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tries to Reclaim Momentum With Bus Tour]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/us/politics/16obama.html?ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For most of the summer, President Obama has been under siege in the White House. On Monday, he became a road warrior, kicking off a three-day bus tour of the Midwest that provided him campaign-style opportunities to strike back at Republicans in a region vital to his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Secretary Geithner Staying (for Now)]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/business/01geithner.html?_r=1&amp;hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Thursday that he planned to stay in his job "for the foreseeable future." If Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner does depart, he would be the last member President Obama's economic brain trust to leave after two-and-a-half years of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Backs Mideast Deal Based on 1967 Lines]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/world/middleeast/20speech.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seeking to harness the seismic political change still unfolding in the Arab world, President Obama for the first time on Thursday publicly called for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would create a non-militarized Palestinian state on the basis of Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chaos in Syria &amp; Jordan Alarms U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/world/middleeast/27diplomacy.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Even as the Obama administration defends the NATO-led air war in Libya, the latest violent clashes in Syria and Jordan are raising new alarm among senior officials who view those countries, in the heartland of the Arab world, as far more vital to American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Torn Between Two Allies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/world/middleeast/02policy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Landler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Struggling to navigate a bitter split between two important  allies, the Obama administration on Tuesday tried to placate an  outraged Turkish government while refusing to condemn Israel for its deadly raid on a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza.President  Obama telephoned Prime...]]></description>
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