Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's men about the Bush Administration's commitment to the war on drugs, and -- on the record, at least -- their answers will ring with phrases like "a threat to democracy," "highest priority," "top of our agenda...
...valedictory, Von Raab has written to Bush warning that drug czar William Bennett's efforts are being undermined at the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet levels by "political jockeying, backstabbing and malaise." Von Raab has warm words for Bush but scorns the President's cautious, pragmatic advisers, including Brady, Secretary of State James Baker and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. Except for drug czar Bennett and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, he says, the Bush team is afraid of taking risks and making waves...
...letter to Bush, Von Raab targets the foreign policy establishment for special scorn: "Maybe it is time for the war on drugs to take its place as our nation's top priority, to interfere with banking interests and Third World debt schemes. Time to interfere with State Department bureaucrats' quest to make the world safe for cocktail parties." State Department officials call Von Raab a "loose cannon" who lacks "a certain rationality." He responds . in kind, calling his Foggy Bottom critics "wimps . . . conscientious objectors in the war on drugs...
Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini and Republicans Jesse Helms, Alfonse D'Amato and Pete Wilson urged George Bush and Baker to name Von Raab drug czar or at least reward him with an ambassadorship. They were rebuffed. But Von Raab's highly public parting shots may soon give Bush reason to wish he had kept his audacious Customs commissioner inside the tent...
...industry executives gather to talk about business these days, their cocktail of choice may be Maalox. As Congress debates how to cut the Pentagon budget, one outcome is virtually certain: programs will be abandoned and assembly lines shut down. Under pressure to cut the federal deficit, Congress and the Bush Administration are determined to shear billions of dollars from military outlays. As a result, anxious defense-industry + executives from New York's Long Island to Los Angeles are frantically lobbying to keep their weapons programs alive. Tens of thousands of jobs depend on the decisions now being made on Capitol...