Stephen Hess
Stephen Hess
Stephen H. Hessis a senior fellow emeritus in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He studies media, the U.S. presidency, political dynasties and the U.S. government. He first joined Brookings in 1972 and was distinguished research professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington University. He served on Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon's White House staff and as an adviser to Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter...
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Bill Clinton is taking the biggest public policy risk of his career and Gore just has to be there with him all the way. Otherwise what happens -- it becomes a Hubert Humphrey situation.
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This gives him more opportunities to move up in political terms, He's tarnished, and you don't re-buff yourself with one exercise.
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I think as we become more and more of a celebrity culture -- as we expect to learn more and more about the people who we elect president or make movie stars -- we are intrigued by their families.
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I gather that there are drifts in different races. I don't see any great breeze bowing all the races in any one direction.
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I think the president might have defused the situation if he had invited her in instantly.
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He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,
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I mean this is primarily about Iraq. There is no sense talking about his education policy or something like that. I mean he has been in office now for nearly six years. He has got one major policy in which he has thrown all the chips into the game. Is it going to work? We shall see.
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Cindy Sheehan had one glorious shining moment and she took advantage of it and the peace movement took advantage of her as it created the attention that the movement hadn't had previously.
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The most important thing in the long run in the United States was the appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court.
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There were big, big items, and that was really quite exceptional for one of these speeches.
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This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment.
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They took a story that was going to be laugh lines for late-night comedians and turned it into a front-page story. There was something in their attitude there that I think is going to have a lingering effect, about how a certain arrogance seemed to have crept into the White House complex.
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But life did not work quite as he designed it in the next year. He picked the wrong major item, Social Security. And then the war got worse and he had the hurricane. So now it's not only the sand that has run out of the hourglass but also the political capital has run out of the bank.
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How much is this going to be a national election? Clearly, the Republicans will hope it's not. ?All politics is local will be their mantra.