Three months later, it backed the French presidency's commitment to audit all EU policies (including the common agricultural policy) for their impact on health.
Our focus on the presidency, our commitment to nonpartisanship and our demonstrated ability to promote civil discourse are worth defending, especially in trying times.
_Even the disturbing aspects of Jackson's personality and Presidency — his commitment to slavery, his willingness to threaten and use fatal force, his waging of war against Native Americans and his policy of Indian removal — are curbed into the long moral arc of the country's progress, along with the better sides of his legacy, his role in the great transformation of American democracy.
Yet his decision on Afghanistan does tell us one thing: Trump has abandoned what once ostensibly formed the foundation of his presidency — a commitment to "America first". Whoever or whatever benefits by prolonging the war in Afghanistan, it certainly won't be the United States.
At the heart of the "New Deal", the phrase inseparably identified with his presidency, was a commitment to use government as an engine of economic recovery.
Last fall, ahead of the 2015 G20 summit in Turkey, 63 civil society organizations sent a letter calling on the finance ministers of the G20 and the Turkish G20 presidency to "advance commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies".
For his part, Brown thanked Clinton, whom he once offered to make his chief of staff after the Arkansan lost his first re-election bid as governor: "I am deeply honored to have been endorsed by former President Bill Clinton, who, after his accomplishment-rich presidency, continues to demonstrate his commitment to bettering our state, our nation, and our world, each and every day".
As the evening concluded, thanks to Clinton's obvious dominance, as well as her assertion that a Clinton presidency would honor U.S. commitments abroad, the Asian markets recovered, the Mexico peso rallied, and Dow futures added 100 points.
He should instead reaffirm Reagan's position in 1981 and return the presidency to its traditional commitments to international law abroad and constitutional fidelity at home.
Should I become president, I will look south, not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental commitment of my presidency.
