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With George Bush comfortably settled into his administration, it's time to compare and contrast. Will Bush, now perceived as Mr. Nice Guy, ever completely slip the wimp image? Will his administration ever produce a scandal big enough to make him a real Republican...
...Given Bush's tendency to revere his immediate predecessor, it would not shock too many folks if the new president were actually cooking up a scandal or two right...
There is some indication that Bush's visit to Eastern Europe last month helped resolve the deadlock over the Polish presidency; General Wojciech Jaruzelski agreed to run and narrowly won with the tolerance of Solidarity's Lech Walesa. The diplomatic and intelligence assessments of the President's personal diplomacy have generally been good, emphasizing that a network embracing Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Moscow is a going concern...
...Bush's relationship with the somber, shaded Jaruzelski is probably as open as that with reformer Walesa. "I told Jaruzelski that he seemed closer to Gorbachev than any of the other leaders," Bush related. "Jaruzelski smiled and said that was probably so. He told me that he had just talked to Gorbachev before our meeting. Jaruzelski now is more willing to speak out, has more confidence to accept different opinions...
With both Jaruzelski and Walesa, small remarks lodged in Bush's mind. "Walesa told me how he came home after work, and it was the one place where he could walk alone in his yard and be away from it all," recalled the President. "Jaruzelski talked about his daughter away at school and how he hoped she was not under pressure from her classmates for what he did. Those are the things we all are used to hearing and we all understand...