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George Bush appears to be bringing his Cabinet into the 1990s: he's adding women. The Cabinet has two: Lynn Martin (Labor) and Carla Hills (Trade). Last week Bush nominated a third, management consultant Barbara Franklin, 51, to take over the Commerce Department from Robert Mosbacher, who is leaving to run the President's re-election campaign...
George Bush could have dispatched just about any political operative to New Hampshire to file his papers for the state's Feb. 18 primary. But the President chose his wife Barbara, whose shining silver hair and trademark pearls garnished a series of photo opportunities. The First Lady exuded her characteristic warmth and motherly concern as she assured local TV viewers: "Nobody suffers more than George about the economy...
...Barbara Bush was only the first in a series of presidential surrogates sent out to stump at frosty shopping centers and on slushy downtown streets. Last week former White House chief of staff John Sununu popped up in his home state to make a show of unity with sometime rival Judd Gregg, Sununu's successor as Governor and a leader of the local Bush organization. Sununu, who has strong ties with conservatives, pronounced Buchanan out of step with mainstream Republicans. Next week Vice President Dan Quayle will spend two days stroking local voters. Explaining the stream of stand...
...minutes he is remembering when he played the ultimate chess game -- Desert Storm -- and won brilliantly. The afterglow of that triumph has faded now, but not his granite conviction that what he did was right. Back a year, the tension was real and he talked more at night with Barbara and hugged his grandchildren with more feeling as he pondered two of his huge problems: Saddam Hussein and the U.S. Congress...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...