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...promoting healthy living goals: C. Everett Koop launched an antismoking campaign in the 1980s; Joycelyn Elders, under President Clinton, pushed for stronger sex education in schools (she was later forced to resign, following the program's controversy); and Richard Carmona focused on controlling drug abuse under President George W. Bush. With Gupta, that soapbox has the potential to become a podium for convincing the American public as well as legislators that the health of the U.S. cannot be fixed until we stop focusing only on health care and get serious about health...
Highlights of Accomplishments and Results The Administration of President George W. Bush: 2001-2009 51 pages...
Before the curtain falls on his presidency, George W. Bush has something to say. This White House report attempts the Sisyphean task of commemorating the legacy of an Administration with an approval rating in the 20s. To push the boulder up the hill, the report unspools a highlight reel of the Administration's accomplishments, from No Child Left Behind to the dissemination of $16 billion in food aid to blighted countries. Framing the text are stats-laden "Did You Know?" boxes, snapshots of the President looking presidential (glad-handing seniors, holding babies, hammering nails) and inspiring section headers describing Bush...
...drinking the GOP Kool-Aid to say that much good has been accomplished on Bush's watch - just as it's obvious that this press release carefully sidesteps the Administration's calamitous failures, from the economy to Hurricane Katrina. But whether this review of the past eight years spurs applause or outrage, anyone attempting to take stock of Bush's policies should know which ones he's putting on his résumé. He might prefer that we postpone appraisals - history, as he likes to say, will be his judge - but one last clear-eyed argument for his legacy...
...committee chair Dianne Feinstein noting that she believed "the agency is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time." The dilemma Obama faced - and perhaps the reason he chose someone from outside the spy community - is that he needs a C.I.A. director untainted by the Bush Administration's policies on torture and its handling of the Iraq War. Panetta is certainly untarred in that respect, but in order to have a chance to manage the country's intelligence-gathering apparatus, he'll have to get through a potentially difficult confirmation process to be headed by Feinstein...