The conversation during a ferocious lightning storm on Aug. 4 unfolded as a sort of Socratic dialogue between the commander in chief and a select group of scholars, who painted the current moment as among the most perilous in modern history for democratic governance, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting.

Comparisons were made to the years before the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln warned that a “house divided against itself cannot stand” and the lead-up to the 1940 election, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism and resistance to the United States joining World War II.

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These meetings have come as Biden faces the isolation that is endemic to presidency, a problem that some Democrats say has been worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, which restricted visitors through much of the first year of his presidency, and by the insular quality of Biden’s inner circle, made up of staffers who have worked with him for decades.

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“where’s neilia? somebody go get neilia.”

“well what if i don’t calm down, jack?”

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“They really wanted outside-the-box thinking of, is there any way that this war, which will be horrible for everyone involved, can be stopped? Can we stop it?

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how can this possibly not be satire

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Some meetings have been more exclusive. At a private lunch with Biden on May 2, Clinton praised his successor’s efforts to build a multinational coalition supporting Ukraine.

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Biden said a priority of his second year in office was to get more input from academia, editorial writers, think tanks

Biden said a priority of his second year in office was to get more input from academia, editorial writers, think tanks

Biden said a priority of his second year in office was to get more input from academia, editorial writers, think tanks

Biden said a priority of his second year in office was to get more input from academia, editorial writers, think tanks

Biden said a priority of his second year in office was to get more input from academia, editorial writers, think tanks

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