Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

He stayed there for another two years before joining the Little Rock bureau of the AP in 1989. Fournier received some criticism from commentator Glenn Greenwald for behaving in a "petulant" manner and for his policy on anonymity for sources. Career
Fournier began his journalism career in 1985 at The Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs Arkansas.

1963) is an American national political journalist currently of the National Journal. Ron Fournier (b.