#POTUS: Perils of the lame-duck president. John Bolton, WSJ
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
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#POTUS: Perils of the lame-duck president. John Bolton, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangers-of-a-lame-duck-biden-withdraw-race-2024-election-foreign-policy-national-security-d8101017?page=1
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| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
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| 0:50.0 | Lame Doc that is a term of affection for a president who will not be the president come January and the inauguration. |
| 0:52.0 | Lame Duck can be a whole term. come January and the inauguration. |
| 0:52.6 | Laimed up can be a whole term, all four years, |
| 0:56.6 | it can be the last year of the fourth of the second term. |
| 1:00.6 | It can also be the time between the election when the baton is passed to the other party or to someone in your own party. |
| 1:08.0 | However, thanks to John Bolton writing to the American at the Wall Street Journal editorial page. I now am |
| 1:15.0 | reviewing all the lame ducks I've lived through. John a very good evening to |
| 1:19.3 | you living through a lame duck. The vivid one for me is Linden Johnson 1968 when he surprised everybody. |
| 1:26.4 | Remember when he touched his brow with the sweat that was coming down in the Oval Office |
| 1:31.3 | and decided not to run. |
| 1:33.4 | What was your most vivid lame duckery? |
| 1:35.8 | Was that it, John? |
| 1:36.7 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:38.3 | Good evening. |
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