He regularly goes hunting on the many frontier worlds during holidays.
He has always been supportive of the military and approved additional funds to upgrade and expand the Federal fleet to counter threats from beyond the Federation's borders. He supports the use of the CQC Championship simulation for recruitment and training of the Federal Navy. Hudson advocates personal freedom at any cost, requiring individual responsibility for oneself.
He is also a "hawk" and unafraid of exploring military solutions to problems, a mindset on full display in his responses to Imperial competition in the Pleiades Nebula, internal rebellions, and conflict with the Thargoids. This policy is popular, apart from with those who relied on government support before he was elected.
Hudson, like the rest of his party, believes the government has a responsibility to be as small a burden on the individual as possible, embodied in his policy of reducing taxes. In the first half of his term, Hudson enjoyed a comfortable majority of support in the wake of the deeply unpopular Halsey, but he survived his mandatory no-confidence vote in Congress in 3305 by a narrow margin, and the second half of his term has been plagued by controversies and crises. He served as a Congressman and Shadow President for the Republican Party during the truncated presidency of his immediate predecessor, Jasmina Halsey. Zachary Hudson is the current President of the Federation, in office since June 2, 3301. Zachary Hudson, Federal Times interview, 3293 It says, 'Certain divine rays break out of the soul in adversity, like sparks from the afflicted flint.' Now you just think about that. When I got older, I found out it was by a man called Nieremberg who lived a couple of thousand years ago. It's something my father used to say to me. Without it, we'd still be on Earth, jostling for whatever scraps of living space the state gave us. People can do remarkable things when they're properly motivated, and that motivation is something no amount of governmental money can provide. But I believe it should be reserved for times of genuine crisis, and being poor is not a crisis! I'm not a monster, despite what the Liberals think.
I'm not going to insult you by pitying you, because I know you can do better. If that's what it takes to get you out looking for work, then so be it. Maybe your kids have dirty faces and shabby clothes. The truth is that you cannot escape adversity.