Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director's job can be a post of unequaled power in shaping economic policy, or it can be relegated to little more than government bookkeeping, massaging the numbers so they justify decisions made elsewhere. George Bush's budget director, the brilliant and calculating Richard Darman, managed to commandeer virtually the entire domestic agenda from his post in the Old Executive Office Building. "Some people come to Washington to take over a department and don't know that they can't do much without OMB's approval," Darman once observed. "But they learn--some more painfully than others." Leon Panetta, Clinton...
...reading by historians who are just as enamored of wars and depressions and human calamity as Hollywood. They have tended to write bad scripts, at least at first, for those Presidents who presided in moments of prosperity and tranquillity and kept them that way. Cases in point: George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dwight Eisenhower, William Howard Taft and Martin Van Buren...
...some reason he evokes less warmth than much stiffer predecessors like Carter and Bush and more publicly offensive men like Johnson and even Nixon. There are still plenty of people around who would fall on their sword for Nixon. Who besides James Carville would do that for Bill...
Wellstone said he could understand why WIC was not fully funded under Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but he expressed his dismay with the Clinton administration's poor budgeting for the program...
...YEAR BARBARA BUSH...