Timothy Naftali

Canadian-American historian

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That would have been an absurdity, people would have thought that he had lost his mind,
You know to play the same game, Canada could rename Lake Superior, ‘Lake Obama,’ and I think that would go over really well in the White House,
We haven’t seen ‘Gulf of America’ tested because the Congress has remained in GOP hands,
  • said Tim Naftali, a senior research scholar at New York University and CNN’s presidential historian
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What we see in the 90s is tabloid television (and) a hunger for stories that we would describe as… the other side of the human experience.”
It’s legacy building. He wants to leave his stamp, he wants to leave his mark,
  • said Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian and senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
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The president has an outsized personality,

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