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What can explain these striking reversals of all reasonable expectations? The truth is that Bush, even as he tried to flail free of Reagan's absentminded embrace, remained the prisoner of his predecessor. Reaganism without Reagan is not an easy thing to sustain, and Bush's improvements just made things worse. This is evident in the three main areas of his failure...
...however, one can logically assume that, as a self-portrayed Washington outsider encountering a reasonably friendly majority, Clinton will refrain from picking up his predecessor's insidious rhetoric...
...Buchanan, the pallid predecessor of Abraham Lincoln -- and the subject of Updike's novel-length play Buchanan Dying (1974)? "I love him," Clayton tells Genevieve. "He was scared of the world, Buchanan. He thought it was out to get him, and it was. He was right. He tried to keep peace." Clayton senses an affinity with the indecisive Buchanan because he too is trying to negotiate, without much success, between warring factions within himself: his passion for Genevieve and his guilt toward his discarded children. "I was a fervent supporter of marriage," he notes, "just not of my marriage...
...DIRECTOR ROBERT GATES IS DETERMINED TO HOLD ON TO his job, even if Bill Clinton prevails. Gates has told friends that he's been staying out of town -- on trips to Eastern Europe and Russia -- to avoid the Iraqgate controversy. He also reminded them that, after all, predecessor Richard Helms served both Presidents Johnson and Nixon. Forget it, Bob. Clinton insiders say Gates will not be forgiven his agency's role in withholding from Congress and the Department of Justice information that showed the scope of the scandal...
GENERAL MOTORS GOT RID OF THE WRONG GUY LAST WEEK. BOB Stempel is not responsible for the disaster at GM. That distinction belongs to Roger B. Smith, Stempel's predecessor as chairman, made infamous in the film Roger & Me. As CEO from 1981 to 1990, Smith designed and executed the strategy that has impoverished the industrial giant. Stempel was laboring to undo the damage when GM's board forced him to fall on his sword after little more than two years on the job. By week's end the directors reportedly began moving to give Smith a final shove...