Stuart Eizenstat:
Well, there’s always that potential.
Things, however, that won’t be undone, we still have normalized relations with China, as tense as they are. We have a Middle East that is on fire, but a Middle East on which people built on his Camp David and each — of Israel’s history with the Abraham Accords.
And I would predict here, sitting here, that within, I would think, a year or two, the Saudis will also normalize. So I think that many of the things he’s done are really lasting. And let me give you two that would be unexpected.
One is, he created the whole Office of Inspector Generals to root out fraud, waste and abuse. Just this last week, Michael Horowitz, the inspector general for Justice, issued a very important report about what was happening in the Trump administration.
And the other is the special counsel legislation. That has endured. It’s — the form of it somewhat changed, but the notion of having an independent counsel to look at wrongdoing.
So all the ethics laws that we have, every single one, lobbying restrictions, gift restrictions, disclosure of assets, all of those things, civil service, they’re all enduring. They’re still here.
