President Barack Obama and President Elect Donald Trump shake hands after meeting in the Oval Office on 10th November, 2016. ©Ron Sachs/DPA/PA Images
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlined his vision of the future in 1944, shortly before winning his fourth presidential term, he committed the United States to “a long and arduous task, which will challenge our patience, our intelligence, [and] our imagination.” His listeners at the Foreign Policy Association meeting in the Waldorf Hotel in New York that wet and windy October day heard him call for “the building of a world fellowship,” which would require the sustained attention of …read more
Source: Prospect
