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...also a goodwill ambassador to the press. In contrast to the President, who rarely visits with reporters, Mrs. Bush was chatty, constantly available, eager to see that the journalists who followed her were comfortable. "Did you all get some good French food?" she asked us at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. She even had her staff push the Russian authorities to let us join her for the Bolshoi ballet--a pleasant surprise for journalists used to being kept far from the President or deprived of such galas because of his 9 p.m. bedtime...
...kiss on Mrs. Bush's hand and looked, said one British paper, as if he were ready to move up her arm. Inside the closed-door meeting, things were similarly cozy. When the subject of Iraq came up, Chirac waved his hand and said, "Let bygones be bygones." By contrast, when President Bush met with Chirac in New York City a week earlier, a slightly exasperated Bush said at one point, according to an aide, "A lot of people think you want us to fail in Iraq...
Oddly, Brooks and Krauthammer offer nearly opposite diagnoses of today's caustic tone. Krauthammer says liberals are angry because Bush has turned out to be a more ideological and more effective President than they expected. The anger, in other words, is over substance. Brooks, by contrast, complains that earlier disputes over cultural values and ideology have molted their substance and turned into rival but trivial assessments of the President as a person...
...felt he had to resign. He felt his credentials had been impaired; the rug had been pulled out from under him,” Bok said. “In contrast to people who hang on to office until last possible minute, John said, ‘I can’t be effective so I’m going to leave...
...clearly outlined time and again by President Bush, whereas President Clinton could never decide upon America’s true objective in Somalia. Three: Even though each death is heart wrenching, the fact is we are making substantial progress in Iraq every day; indeed, our goals appear attainable. In contrast, Somalia seemed utterly hopeless...