Inheriting A Bad Hand: Richard Nixon & Barack Obama as Wartime Presidents – Andrew J. Polsky

• History

Upon becoming President, Richard Nixon and Barack Obama each assumed responsibility for wars that had become increasingly unpopular with the American people. Presidents who take over a stalemated conflict regain a degree of flexibility their predecessors have lost. But their window for shaping a successful outcome is brief. See how Nixon and Obama directed the wars they inherited, and why they misjudged their capacity to shape the outcome.

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