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Blame Dodger.(The Age of Sacred Terror)(Book Review)
The Age of Sacred Terror, by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (Random House, 490 pp., $25.95)
'There are few more durable illusions in American life than the omnipotent presidency," write Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, two former Clinton National Security Council staffers, in their new book. "Yet anyone who has worked in the White House knows that the office has remarkably little real power, not only when it comes to dealing with Congress and the judiciary but also in running the vast, unwieldy contraption that is the executive branch."
The alleged weakness of the presidency has been a common complaint over the years, one favored particularly by ...
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