{"id":918,"date":"2018-12-18T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T22:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=918"},"modified":"2018-12-18T22:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T22:51:32","slug":"george-w-bushs-inaugural-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/george-w-bushs-inaugural-address\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush&#8217;s Inaugural Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The War on Terror and George W. Bush\u2019s foreign policy exemplifies American Exceptionalism in many ways. In his Inaugural Address, he calls the U.S. a, \u201cservant of freedom\u201d. This goes back to the uniqueness of American liberty as a major component of American Exceptionalism along with the willingness to be the \u201cservant of freedom\u201d alone (Foot). Adding more onto the uniqueness President Bush suggests that the U.S. has to be the forebearer of freedom than no one else will pick up the torch. \u201cIf our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led.\u201d This line alone nearly defines President Bush\u2019s foreign policy and why the United States should be the police of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-919 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/george-w-bush-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/george-w-bush-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/george-w-bush-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/george-w-bush-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/george-w-bush-1-676x380.jpg 676w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/george-w-bush-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The War on Terror and George W. Bush\u2019s foreign policy exemplifies American Exceptionalism in many ways. In his Inaugural Address, he calls the U.S. a, \u201cservant of freedom\u201d. This goes&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/george-w-bushs-inaugural-address\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}