'A similar challenge': how Joe Biden echoes Kennedys on US foreign policy
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5FKJ4)
The president does not just share Irish roots with John, Robert and Ted Kennedy - he also wants to lead America in the world
It was a popular Washington sport: find the past president who best explained Donald Trump. There was a touch of Andrew Jackson's populism, a dash of Richard Nixon's skulduggery, a sprinkling of Ronald Reagan's myth-making. But now all that is over, who are the closest matches to Joe Biden?
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