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...charm offensive (invite them to the ranch?) will help, but it won?t heal the political rifts waiting to crack open. Here is a short list, which together constitute your second, more serious problem: National Missile Defense (NMD), U.S. troops in Bosnia, aid to Russia, Iran-Iraq sanctions plus sundry trade conflicts (e.g., over subsidies for the new monster Airbus that may do in Boeing's 747). These items galvanize the worst fears of the Europeans. They have a single name: American unilateralism. Nor should their alarm be shrugged off as routine babble of the smaller denizens of the international...
When George W. Bush finally pulled his presidency from the Florida swamp, the predictions were dire. Bush would be a man without a mandate, unable to move his agenda through the divided Senate. His plan to use Texas charm to win friends and influence lawmakers was dismissed as laughable, a rube's view of the capital...
...charm offensive was working just the way Bush had planned it back when the skeptics were making their predictions. "Washington was saying, 'That may have worked in Texas, but it won't work in Washington,'" says Bush adviser Mark McKinnon. "There is nothing he likes to hear more than you can't do something, because it just charges him up to prove that...
...remarkable person, and his persuasive charm, talents, and moral commitment helped to convince Presidents and Prime Ministers and key legislators around the world to support debt cancellation, a process which is now underway for a couple of dozen of the world's poorest countries. He's also an amazing musical talent," Sachs wrote in an e-mail...
...wonder, that George W. Bush, only days into the job, seemed, well, amazingly "presidential." He seemed smart enough not only to get through the first week of the presidency without being arrested for DWI or moronic diction, but to move into power rather deftly. The papers called it a charm offensive, and they weren't being sarcastic; the charm was working. Ted Kennedy, of all people, said nice things. He warned Democrats not to underestimate...