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...ROBERT A. CARO Lyndon Johnson biographer This President can get his Administration back on track only with a very deep type of political and governmental courage: the courage to admit that his most fundamental policies have failed and must be radically changed. With a scandal like Iran-contra, you can fire a man. That won't be enough here. The wounds are too deep. When a large part of the problem is a war, you really have to change the most fundamental policies. Iraq is wrecking George Bush's presidency. People said about Vietnam, You can't just...
...ROBERT DALLEK History professor, Boston University Bush is in a situation where you have the whiff of Vietnam and the smell of Watergate, and there are few examples of Presidents who got into trouble this deep and worked out of it. Reagan ran into a firestorm over Iran-contra, and he was rescued by his relationship with Gorbachev and dealing with the Soviet Union. For Bush, the Iraq war is a burden he won't be able to shake until he can end the conflict. All the rhetoric about democracy, the Iraqi constitution--I think the public is skeptical since...
...told me. "It hasn't been very good at governance. Perhaps it's time for Bush to do what Ronald Reagan did to shore up his White House in the final years-bring in a team of terrific managers, people with credibility from Day One." Faced with the Iran-contra scandal, Reagan brought in Howard Baker and then Ken Duberstein as chiefs of staff, Frank Carlucci and then Colin Powell as National Security Advisers (Powell told Reagan, in no uncertain terms, that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who was running an illegal war from the White House basement...
...Casa Blanca. Antes del 11 de septiembre, asesor? a la administraci?n en asuntos relacionados con la divulgaci?n de sus relaciones con ejecutivos de la industria energ?tica. Despu?s de los ataques, Gonz?les ayud? a redactar el Patriot Act, que ampli? el poder federal en nombre de la guerra contra el terrorismo. Su rol tambi?n fue relevante en la selecci?n de candidatos conservadores al poder judicial y, quiz? en un tono m?s controversial, estuvo involucrado de manera protag?nica, en las reuniones y memorandums que establecieron los principios para el tratamiento de terroristas capturados fuera del suelo americano. Este historial caus?...
FILED FOR DIVORCE. TERRY MCMILLAN, 53, author who based her best-selling book How Stella Got Her Groove Back on her romance with JONATHAN PLUMMER, 30; after discovering he was gay; in California's Contra Costa County. "It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicized to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit," she said in court papers. The revelation led her to suspect that the Jamaican she met at a resort a decade ago married her only to get his U.S. citizenship. Plummer maintains he didn't know...