"... a one-term President who struggled to make the transition from a successful career in business and light entertainment to politics. Although he made immigration reform the central plank of his policy platform, his efforts to enact his legislative agenda in that area were thwarted by an obstructive Congress. Nonetheless, he achieved significant policy success both domestically (by delivering a strong economy, thanks in part to some well-timed tax cuts that he championed) and, most notably, in foreign policy. In the latter field, his valiant attempts to bring peace to the Korean peninsular were the most successful of such initiatives prior to the First War of the Nine-Dash Line, while his achievements in reducing tensions in the Middle East and expanding the number of majority-Muslim countries recognising Israel are the basis upon which the lasting peace settlement reached under the Tucker Administration is founded. However, in the period before the First War of the Nine-Dash Line, foreign policy success was not rewarded at the ballot box in most Western countries and the US was no exception. Instead, his Presidency was mostly ended by a pandemic for which he was not responsible and which, as President of a federal system, he had little power to combat. In an ironic twist, that disease, as we now know ..."
I am afraid that is all there is. It is in rather large print and, of course, I have had to have it translated.
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