Desperate for insight into how to respond to a staggering death toll and deep recession, the White House machinery is digging through American history for answers
When the avian flu first spread to pockets of Southeast Asia in 2005, President George W. Bush reassured Americans he would be prepared if the viral infection reached the United States.
Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger finished a copy of Barry’s sobering narrative himself in early January, when the first cases of Covid-19 spread beyond mainland China. “Look, we had the Civil War. We lost 600,000 people, right?” Trump said in the White House press briefing room Wednesday. “You know, we lose more here potentially than you lose in world wars as a country, so there’s nothing positive, there’s nothing great about it.”
“When I think about past presidents who have led us into war, most times there were other designs in place or it was provoked,” he added, citing Trump'sAs Trump joins the ranks of previous wartime leaders, however, the enemy he is fighting is strikingly unfamiliar: a lethal pathogen that forced Americans into battle with minimal preparation and limited visibility into where this war might take them.
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