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U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, centre, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, right, applaud as U.S. President Donald Trump addresses Congress in March. Mr. Trump is setting the presidential agenda like no other president before him.

The pre-eminent issue in the John F. Kennedy administration was containment of communism. For Lyndon B. Johnson, it was civil rights and the war in Vietnam. Jimmy Carter was preoccupied with energy supplies and hostages in Iran. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama took on health care, and George W. Bush was forced to address terrorism.

Those were the concerns of yesteryears.

Donald Trump is barely finished with the first half of the first year of his second term, and already many issues on the presidential agenda – along with immigration, tariffs and

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