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This civility distinguishes Bush and Obama from many past rivals turned fraternity brothers sharing the secret handshake. Bush takes such rituals seriously, and he had tagged Obama long ago, during White House rush. When freshman Senators visited for breakfast in 2005, Obama wrote in 2006, Bush sought him out to offer some advice. "You've got a bright future. Very bright," the President said. "But I've been in this town awhile, and let me tell you, it can be tough." When your star rises fast, people will come after you from all sides, he warned. "So watch yourself...
...chance to have breakfast with him recently. He's got tremendous ideas. His energy and enthusiasm - and his understanding of the ideals of Star Trek - are really there. I think it's going to be an exciting movie...
...have more student input and control. Their feedback will determine what the next steps are.11. FM: Dish: what’s some of the weirdest feedback you’ve gotten?TAM: (Laughs) Uh, hmm. Well, I remember getting a really, really great compliment about a breakfast, and the comment went on and on and on, as only, I think, an articulate student could do. And then they said something, “But then again it’s hard to bleep bleep screw up Captain Crunch.”12. FM: What’s your favorite part...
...month where an Obama Administration might lean in the wars currently underway. Iraq in "now a political problem; security and the presence of military is important, but we need to get the Iraqis catalyzed to come to grips with handling front line combat issues themselves," said Danzig in a breakfast with reporters. While the Pentagon must begin "moving additional combat brigades to Afghanistan," Danzig stressed that "there are opportunities to use capabilities besides military power in Afghanistan that have been underdeveloped in Administration policy up until...
...early 2007, John McCain sat down to breakfast at a back table in the Senate Dining Room with Ken Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last White House chief of staff and one of the few big-name Republicans to have supported McCain rather than George W. Bush in 2000. It stood to reason that the fabled Washington wise man would back McCain again. Instead, Duberstein said he was troubled by McCain's efforts to ingratiate himself with the conservative wing of their party. He cited a fence-mending commencement address McCain had given at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University...