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...Thursday, TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney offered an inside-the-Beltway take on the apparent environmental turnaround...
...Inside the territory destined to be known as the Beltway, many observers, Dowds of their day, greeted Lincoln as a knuckle-dragging simpleton from the backwoods. Descendants of such commentators viewed Truman as a dangerous mediocrity, an ex-haberdasher and party hack from the Kansas City machine. Commentary in our own time is liable to fall into the same supercilious perspective. We are all guilty, from time to time, of stupid judgments about leaders, because the outcomes are not known...
After attendees are treated to a "wine, cheese and carbo-loading" reception, politicians and media from both parties will bid on a host of hot-ticket beltway items...
...Larry Summers, both Greenspan buddies, are tough acts to follow, and one hopes Bush ran his Treasury shortlist (currently headed by ALCOA chief Paul O'Neill) by the Fed chairman, because the relationship between the Bush administration and the Fed will be Topic A for Wall Street's Beltway-watchers. The bad news: The new treasury secretary's first job will be selling that very same...
...That was the question being traded by inside-the-Beltway types Thursday after USA Today reported that President Bush had decided not to eliminate two offices created by former president Bill Clinton: the Office of National AIDS Policy and the Office on the President's Initiative for One America (designed to promote positive race relations...