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At last, America has a gaffe-prone president again

The welcome return of the gaffe-prone president

23 January 2021

9:00 AM

23 January 2021

9:00 AM

‘Folks, I can tell you, I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.’ So said then vice-president Joe Biden in 2012. A month earlier, he had assured a crowd in New York that President Barack Obama could, in Teddy Roosevelt’s famous words, ‘speak softly but carry a big stick’ when it came to international relations.

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