solemn declaration

Another essential part of Carter’s stock speech was this solemn declaration: “I want a government as full of compassion and decency and openness and honesty and brotherhood and love as are the American people.”

“It was as if the voice of our dear marshal making a solemn declaration of history was echoed loudly,” the article said.

His “solemn declaration” emphasised that North Korea would be a “responsible nuclear power” that “would not pose any threat to any country and region” as long as the interests of North Korea “are not infringed upon”.

“We thought that what was going to happen was the solemn declaration of independence of the Catalan Republic,” said Anna Gabriel, a leader of the far-left anarchist CUP party, which partners with Puigdemont’s party to form a fragile pro-independence coalition.

What does it do for presidential credibility, now and in the future, if a solemn declaration of urgent national security necessity turns out to have been the work of two staffers named Steve?