Word: manning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...they'd been rolled there like dice. "I'm gonna put a wooden walkway of some kind in here," he says, dodging a vine. Bush can look as if he's clanging around in a blue suit, but he doesn't look lost on the ranch in the Marlboro Man getup: worn black jeans, a blue work shirt and a mustard-colored barn jacket with stains and a corduroy collar. The breast reads: GEORGE W. BUSH, GOVERNOR...
...must unify a divided nation. He lost the popular vote by 337,000, and many Americans believe he lost Florida and thus the electoral contest as well--and a non-binding, after-the-fact recount could end up reaching the same conclusion around the time he takes office. The man who promised to be "a uniter, not a divider"--who warned Republicans that the Party of Lincoln hasn't always heeded the message of Lincoln--ended up fighting in the courts to prevent the recount of ballots cast largely by Americans who are black, poor, and/or elderly. The man...
...brother said to Lee Atwater, here's the definition of loyalty: if there's a hand grenade rolling around the Old Man, we want you diving on it first. Karl is that way. You can name 20 others, and they'd be the ones rolling the grenade. You heard them all in the course of the campaign--when times were rough, they were all the anonymous second-guessers saying, "Bush needs to have more Washington experience." That's a code word for "Bush needs to have me, so I can tell some foreign government they need to double my fees...
...their own. He watched his father wrestle for three years with a White House chief of staff named John Sununu, a former New Hampshire Governor, who ran the White House as if he were President. The Bush family--Dubya included--long ago decided that one reason the old man lost in 1992 was that Sununu kept many good ideas from reaching the Oval Office...
...makes perfect sense that the son plans to turn his West Wing over to the one man from his father's era who was seen inside as the anti-Sununu: Andy Card. Described as fair, tireless and completely loyal by colleagues, Card was the one person Bush aides and family members could go to with their complaints and requests when Sununu was being his usual unpleasant self. Says Bush now: "Andy Card is an experienced, low-keyed person who understands the definition of chief of staff is not junior President, but is the chief of a staff of very high...