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Colin Powell, who was Dad's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was named on Saturday to the post of Secretary of State, and Bush has all but said Condoleezza Rice will be his National Security Adviser. Rice worked on the NSC staff of Bush's father for two years and has been at W.'s side for six months. But Bush was finding it harder to pick someone to run the Pentagon, perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush...
...hours before he conceded the election, Al Gore was on the phone with his old friend Norm Dicks, a Democratic Congressman from Washington State. Allies since 1977, when both were House freshmen, Gore and Dicks stayed in touch during the last roller-coaster days of the 2000 contest. Now that it was over, Dicks told the Vice President, "you've done all you could do. You'll have another day." Gore giggled nervously and said, "I'm not so sure about that." Dicks could hear the hurt in his voice. "He won Florida," Dicks told TIME, "and should be President...
...presidency. His closest advisers, friends and even family members all describe Bush's mood during that tense period as "serene" or "calm" or "even keeled." He was never angry, they say, never worried or self-pitying. His sister Dorothy Bush Koch was so concerned about his state of mind that she would call down to Texas periodically to see if he needed cheering up. He didn't. "Don't worry about me," George told her. "I'm fine." David Sibley, a Texas state senator, had invited the Bushes to his daughter's Dec. 2 wedding. Bush called up beforehand...
...Constitutionally, elections really are a state affair. Do we really want to mess with that? Leave the Electoral College in place, as a mild equalizer and a needed firewall, and let the system renew itself the way it always has: out of naked political fear...
...envision a full-blown ?80s revival. Natural-looking hair? Gone. Invest in hair mousse futures. Women will be wearing those boxy power suits again. When one attends a Bush state dinner, one will be rubbing shoulder pads with the rich...