(Editor’s note: Lanny Davis offers President Biden an idea published by the RealClear Wire. Davis served President’s Bill Clinton & George W. Bush.)
Although President Joe Biden is a lifelong Democrat, his political career was long defined by bipartisan compromises and reaching out to the Republican Party with legislative compromises, budget battle solutions, foreign policy consensus and, notably, personal friendships.
Now it’s time for him to make U S. history by announcing, prior to the Democratic Party nominating convention, that he will name a bipartisan Cabinet and policy advisers and work with congressional Republicans conservative leaders as well as progressive Democrats to find common ground on the issues Americans care about most, starting with border security, inflation, criminal justice, climate change and support for democracy and the rule of law.
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin famously wrote how Abraham Lincoln gathered his political adversaries (who also disliked each other) in his administration at this country’s most perilous time – and made it work. In so doing, America’s greatest president showed how contrary voices within a Cabinet can be important and necessary during a Civil War that imperiled the Union.
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