Biden holding secret meetings with historians, Bill Clinton for advice
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Biden’s history lesson: President was told the U.S. is facing a crisis similar to the tensions before the Civil War and the fascist movement leading to the Second World War in two-hour White House talk from historians
- Biden has been holding a series of secret meetings with historians, policy experts and even former President Bill Clinton
- He’s seeking advice on how to tackle variety of problems facing nation
- He’s talking to historians about the political divide nation is facing, which they compared to times in Lincoln and FDR presidencies
- He talked to Clinton about inflation
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President Joe Biden has been holding a series of secret meetings with historians, policy experts and even former President Bill Clinton, a new report revealed Thursday, as he navigates a variety of problems facing the nation.
Biden met with a group of scholars last week on August 4, the same day a fierce lightning storm raged across Washington D.C., where they told him it a perilous moment in modern day political history, the Washington Post reported.
The historians compared Biden’s moment in history to the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln warned that a ‘house divided against itself cannot stand’ and the 1940 election, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism and resistance to the U.S. joining World War II.
In the 1860 election, Lincoln won the presidency with a plurality and his election triggered the Civil War. In the 1940 election, Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office and said he ran to help the suffering being faced by Europe.
President Joe Biden has been holding a series of secret meetings with historians and policy experts as he navigates a variety of problems facing the nation
Historians compared Biden’s moment in history to the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln (left) warned that a ‘house divided against itself cannot stand’ and the 1940 election, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism and resistance to the U.S. joining World War II.
A Pew Study this spring found ‘Americans have rarely been as polarized as they are today.’
The differences are seen in a range of policy areas – including the economy, racial justice, climate change, and law enforcement – but became even more pronounced during the 2020 election and the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden said he ran for president because of the political violence he saw in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 when marchers in the Unite the Right rally clashed with counterprotesters, resulting in three deaths and multiple injuries.
In his first major speech as president-elect, he said: ‘I pledge to be a President who seeks not to divide, but to unify.’
‘To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy,’ he said. ‘We are not enemies. We are Americans.’
Now Biden is using these private White House meetings to help him address the crises facing his presidency – including race relations, the economy, and international affairs.
Bill Clinton met with President Biden in May to talk about inflation – above the two men are seen together when Biden was VP
Bill Clinton spoke with Biden in May about how to tackle inflation and the midterm elections, the Post reported. And a group of foreign policy experts, including former Republicans, where at the White House in January to brief Biden before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Biden asks many questions and sometimes takes the advice.
It was Clinton who advised him to contrast his policies with those of Republicans, including those of Republican Sen. Rick Scott, who had proposed a five-year sunset on all federal laws, including Social Security and Medicare.
Biden has gone on the attack on GOP policies, and specifically called out Scott’s by name. He’s also attacked ‘extreme MAGA’ Republicans.