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...their party in the November elections. And Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have targeted four more conservative nominees they might block for the appeals court: Jeffrey Sutton in Ohio, Miguel Estrada in the District of Columbia, D. Brooks Smith in Pennsylvania and Priscilla Owen in Texas. Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, says Bush intends to fight for those nominees, but then he also insists Bush fought hard for Pickering. To counter the Democrats, the President plans to spend the coming months pushing Congress to pass an energy bill that includes drilling in the ANWR, more tax cuts...
...taped conversations of President Lyndon Johnson or the writings of presidential historians, then shows like "The West Wing" can lay claim to improving the quality of democracy even as they make money. If, on the other hand, viewers conclude that politics is identical to the scenes of President Jed Bartlett fighting for everything a majority of Americans desire, or that it is just a simple matter of appearing to be neither too liberal nor too conservative, then they will be bitterly disappointed when they turn from viewing to participating. "The West Wing"'s President Bartlett is a protector...
...Bono make a difference? Not by himself. But the world is a better place because people like him are doing something positive. Bono's celebrity status may get him in the door, but his brains and his sincere heart are what keeps him at the table. LISA RENNINGER Bartlett...
Early in The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton, Joe Klein delivers a factoid that proves the title. Three statements of the former President were deemed worthy of being cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: "I didn't inhale," "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," and "It depends on what the meaning of the word...
Klein brings no information of the forehead-slapping sort about what went on between the Clintons during the Monica debacle. Several days before special prosecutor Ken Starr was due at the White House to take the testimony that would give Bartlett's one of its quotes, Hillary still didn't know that Starr had the goods on her husband. Did Clinton ever own up to her face-to-face, admit there was a stained blue dress? Klein raises the question whether Hillary's coldness was faked to make people think she was normal or whether she is normal and actually...