the 20-year-long, five-term Democratic presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

This time, the debate isn’t over how to handle a world transformed by a war the United States and its allies won; it’s about the legacy of the last Republican president, George W. Bush, and a war most people think we lost. So the potential candidate in the most intriguing position is his brother Jeb, the former governor of Florida. He hasn’t spelled out his foreign policy yet, but he’s scheduled to give a speech on the subject this week in Chicago. On national security, Jeb Bush is the candidate to watch.

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And this woman...good God. She was more beautiful, even, than first impression suggested. She was also young—well shy of thirty, he thought, which was certainly young enough to give an embittered old man a child. But if she had any children by Warneham, they were daughters, else Gareth would not be standing here, and she would not be gazing politely at the gardens, as if to spare him his embarrassment. Well, to hell with her mercy. He did not need it.

"Allow me to extend my condolences on your bereavement," he said briskly. "As you are doubtless aware, my cousin and I did not communicate, so I do not know if—"

"And I know nothing of my husband's personal affairs," she interjected tightly.