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<title><![CDATA[Jeff Shesol - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20368.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jeff Shesol]]></description><category domain="20368">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Is Broken. Where's Biden?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/09/30/the-supreme-court-is-broken-wheres-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent speech at Independence Hall, President Biden called on Americans to stand against an assault on democracy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can President Trump Learn on the Job?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/can-president-trump-learn-on-the-job</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's recent changes of tone, opinion, and direction might be signs that his thinking is evolving.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Be Reaganesque in All the Wrong Ways?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-trump-be-reaganesque-in-all-the-wrong-ways?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump, of course, has nothing of Reagan's charm, vision, moral clarity, or personal dignity. But their management styles may prove to be similar.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Myths About Political Speechwriting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-political-speechwriting/2016/07/22/a23ee460-4f70-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tumult over Melania Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s speech this past week at the Republican National Convention '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a search for a plagiarist that turned up an in-house writer for the Trump Organization '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' was an anomaly: Speechwriters are rarely figures of public note. If we have a creed, it is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul and the Problem of Political Experience]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/rand-paul-and-the-problem-of-political-experience</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Turns the Page]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/obama-turns-page-2015-state-union</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The state of the union is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'strong,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' President Obama declared last night, and so, it turns out, was the State of the Union address. Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s speech looked hale and fit, weighing in at around sixty-five hundred words and almost exactly sixty minutes and lifting members of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mario Cuomo's Finest Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mario-cuomos-finest-moment</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mario Cuomo was so impressive an orator that he had to title a collection of his speeches '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'More Than Words,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' lest anybody gets the wrong idea. The three-term New York governor, who died on Thursday at the age of eighty-two, resented the notion that he could speak better than he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and the End of Greatness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/obama-end-greatness?int-cid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March of 1977, several weeks into the Carter Administration, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Saturday Night Live'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' featured a skit called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Ask President Carter.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The premise was a radio program, hosted by Walter Cronkite (Bill Murray), on which callers brought their problems to President Carter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Coalition of the Willing &amp; Unable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/obamas-new-war-isis</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every year, as the Constitution requires, the President delivers a State of the Union address. And every year, as tradition dictates, he gives a commencement speech at one of the military academies, does a standup routine at the White House Correspondents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Dinner, and announces his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nixon and the GOP's Politics of Resentment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/nixon-memorial</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever else you might say about Richard Nixon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and you might say a lot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the man knew how to write a memo. He wrote an untold number in the twenty years between his resignation from the Presidency, forty years ago this week, and his death, on April 22, 1994, at the age of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Sue Me: Republicans Learn to Love Litigation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/07/so-sue-me-republicans-learn-to-love-litigation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is unlikely to end up in Bartlett'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Familiar Quotations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or carved on the wall of his Presidential library, but '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sue me'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' turns out to be one of the smartest things Barack Obama has said. The President made the offhand comment on July 1st, while discussing his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Afraid of an Active President?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/04/the-republican-fear-of-an-active-president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama took a pair of actions on Tuesday aimed at exposing pay discrimination and improving wages for women. Together, these measures will affect twenty-two per cent of the workforce and could, over time, make it harder to underpay women, at least in the quiet and covert way...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Left Turn: Dems &amp; the New Populism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/02/no-left-turn-democrats-and-the-new-populism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Conservatives Own &quot;Opportunity&quot;?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/02/do-conservatives-own-opportunity.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re looking to acquire part of the dictionary, to build a portfolio of words for your exclusive use, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'opportunity,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' most people would agree, is a pretty good asset. But apparently it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no longer on the market. The Republican Party has claimed possession of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can You Reset a Presidency?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/can-you-reset-a-presidency.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the annals of misbegotten diplomacy, though a far cry from Donald Rumsfeld'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s handshake with Saddam Hussein in 1983, Hillary Clinton would probably like to take back the moment, in March, 2009, when she handed a big, red plastic button to her Russian counterpart, foreign minister...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Determined to Make Obamacare Fail]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/11/the-republican-war-on-competence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy is not the only Massachusetts Democrat with an anniversary worth marking this fall. Nor is November 22nd the only occasion for sombre reflection, for rueful meditation on what might have been. You might have missed this amid the endless rerunning of the Zapruder reel, but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joy Behar Was Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-29/the-view-vision-and-what-obama-can-learn-from-fdr/?cid=bs:archive17</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[by Jeff Shesol

            
                    
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                Jeff Shesol is the author of Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court. He is also a founding partner of West Wing Writers, a speechwriting and strategy firm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Should Beware Taking on High Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/opinion/14shesol.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Shesol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WashingtonIN his State of the Union address, when President Obama criticized the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito shook his head, scowled and mouthed a two-word dissent: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Not true.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Chief Justice John Roberts, meanwhile, smiled serenely, apparently untroubled by the...]]></description>
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