Tag Archives: US presidents

Changing names

Lord Norton 06/11/2008 – 12:22 pm

A former student has suggested I ask one of the questions about US Presidents that I ask each year in seminars.   Conscious that this is a blog about the Lords - but equally conscious that readership increases when I ask questions about US Presidents! - I thought I would offer a link between a feature of some peers and a US President. Some members of the House of Lords choose titles which are […]

Choosing a leader

Lord Norton 02/11/2008 – 6:25 pm

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 (and he was not a particularly good President).  The […]