"You produce a press release which says Britain has a 50p tax rate while you preside over a tax system where some people are paying zero per cent tax," he said.
And while Republicans have presided over dismal income growth for middle-class and poor families in most years, they have, remarkably enough, produced robust growth in election years.
Brokaw, for example, has been hammered by critics like David Halberstam for preaching the value of foreign news while presiding over a program that has cut it to the bone; and yet Brokaw argues, in his own defense, that he has resisted still deeper cuts.
Mr. Brinkley was an anchor of "Nightly News" with John Chancellor from 1976 to 1979 and for a while presided over "NBC Magazine".
He had served as a judge before becoming the city's top prosecutor, and for a while he had presided over San Diego's alternative drug court.
"People have died because of the bedroom tax," said one audience member to the Tory prime minister, which was a ludicrous thing to say of a pretty minor welfare reform; yet it was revealing of a general antipathy.Mr Cameron can at least counter that it is hard to make people love you while presiding over deep spending cuts.
Every Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower presided over increasing economic inequality, while only one Democrat — Jimmy Carter — did so.
Greece and Portugal ran huge current-account deficits while Ireland presided over a prodigious property boom that disguised underlying fiscal weaknesses through flaky housing-related revenues.
Those remarks came while he presided over the annual White House reception for gay-pride month an occasion the Pentagon is celebrating for the first time, too.
While Samaranch presided over this exercise in ostensible democracy, he was flanked by younger I.O.C. officials of some talent and charm and integrity, undoubtedly still hoping for their turn.
As head of the tax-exempt division, records reveal that while she presided over alleged discrimination against conservative nonprofits, Ms. Lois Lerner received $129,000 in bonuses.
