Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November 1990, during the buildup to Operation Desert Storm, James Baker tried to shore up support on the home front for the dispatch of U.S. troops half a world away. "To bring it down to the level of the average American citizen," he said, standing up to Saddam Hussein "means jobs." Then, to make sure everyone understood, he said it again, "If you want to sum it up in one word, it's jobs...
...remains. But the Pentagon has now authorized a superior DNA-identification system, for which it will collect blood and saliva samples from all service personnel. The problem is that dog tags can be lost, switched or counterfeited, and fingerprints and dental records are not always reliable. Several casualties of Desert Storm, for example, went unidentified for weeks because of such problems. Using DNA samples taken from family members, though, Army experts were recently able to identify the remains of an American pilot killed 25 years ago over North Vietnam...
...kiss. He's lost 40 points in his ratings and gained 10 times that many gray hairs. But he's got his feet up on the desk in an Oval Office flooded with December sunshine, and for 30 minutes he is remembering when he played the ultimate chess game -- Desert Storm -- and won brilliantly. The afterglow of that triumph has faded now, but not his granite conviction that what he did was right. Back a year, the tension was real and he talked more at night with Barbara and hugged his grandchildren with more feeling as he pondered...
...reasoning: "If I had ever conveyed to this Congress that I wasn't going to do anything unless I had their endorsement . . . I really believe Saddam Hussein would still be there." The President now concedes that his action carried enormous political risks -- including a possible impeachment attempt if Desert Storm had failed. "They would have had impeachment papers out there in a hurry -- no question about that -- for violating my constitutional authority, for leading our country into a quagmire...
...common criticism of Bush is that the decisive leadership he showed in Desert Storm has not been duplicated in his budgetary and domestic policy efforts. When confronted with this charge, the President suddenly begins pointing around the empty room at imaginary members of his war staff and giving orders as he did in the thick of the gulf crisis: " 'Colin, you do this. Dick, you're responsible for this. Have Colin, the Chairman, and General Schwarzkopf do this. Brent, here is what I want to do' -- something happens. And in dealing with the domestic economy, you're dealing with every...