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Trent Lott's capitulation, stepping down as Senate majority leader when the ruckus over his remarks at Strom Thurmond's 100th-birthday party simply wouldn't go away, ended a very rough patch for the Republicans. And Tennessee Senator Bill Frist spared the party another potential battle when he quickly locked up the votes to replace Lott. But it may take longer to heal relations between Senate Republicans and the White House, whose heavy hand in the affair has both Lott supporters and opponents on Capitol Hill grumbling...
...Trent Lott sets off an old-fashioned political scandal with his remarks for Strom's birthday...
...internship in 1965 with the state senate, which was controlled by the G.O.P. It was his first engagement with the Republican Party. His father, a career federal bureaucrat with the Soil Conservation Service, and mother, a homemaker, were staunch Democrats who were proud their son shared a birthday with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Cheney would never leave the embrace of the G.O.P. When he was a Republican Congressman, his father would kid him that "you can't take my vote for granted...
...only known cure is being married to a Vice President. Having transcended argument for its own sake, she dropped a controversial book project on academia in favor of writing one for children, America: A Patriotic Primer ("A is for America, the land that we love; B is for the Birthday of this nation of ours"). Scribbled in the margins of newspapers during the 2000 campaign, it's as uncontroversial as you can get, although, no doubt, a few colleagues from her old life would find "N is for Native Americans" a squishy nod to multiculturalism...
That is a lesson the U.S. has just learned in, of all unlikely places, South Korea. In June, two teenage girls were accidentally killed by an American Army vehicle while walking to a birthday party. Since the accident, there have been almost constant demonstrations against what is perceived as the arrogance of the U.S. military, still stationed in Korea nearly 50 years after the end of the Korean War. If Bush is not very, very careful, he is going to stumble into a world in which such demonstrations--or worse--against ubiquitous American military power are common...