A friend has drawn my attention to a question that appeared in The Times a few days ago. I missed it but I thought I would reproduce it as it is such a good question. When was the last US presidential election which was won by the Republicans in which a Nixon or a Bush was…
On Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls. They will choose between two principal candidates. The focus on their relative merits has rather obscured discussion of the process by which they became candidates. Both have risen to the top despite not having any executive experience. The last Senator to be elected President was John Kennedy…
