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...sheriff. For politicians of the soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins and small feet" - TR is a perfect reproof, and they respond by embracing him. Clinton placed a bust of the Rough Rider on his desk. Bush moved TR's portrait to a prominent spot in the Cabinet room, and to many an Oval Office visitor he proudly points to his desk as the same one Roosevelt used. "I call him Ted," the President has said...
...John F. Kennedy, scrimmaging with his clan at Hyannis Port, and not be reminded of another young President, tussling with his kids at Sagamore Hill? Is it any surprise when more recent Presidents try to borrow a bit of his halo? Bill Clinton had Teddy's bust on his desk. George W. Bush let it be known that he spent last Christmas vacation reading a Roosevelt biography, his second since he got to the White House...
...hero, Kamiyama (dishy Takamasa Suga). In the first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair to the rain-gutter coalition on view at CHS. There?s gorilla sitting at one classroom desk, and a prancing tough guy called the Queen (Freddie Mercury with Toshiro Mifune?s menace), and a cigarette-puffing robot in a pink shirt. The entire group sends up fumes like an Iraqi oil factory, and when Kamiyama presses them to renounce smoking, they protest: "Our lips would be lonely...
...Pence: The worst thing we could do would be to pass the Senate amnesty bill and send it to the President's desk...
Tenet called Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who runs the country's interior department for his father - the imperious, religious Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, the country's chief of interior and intelligence matters. Operators of the Middle East desk at NSC made calls to mid-rung Saudi officials. Bob Jordan, the U.S. ambassador, was asked by the State Department and White House to talk directly to contacts in Riyadh. The United States didn't know the time or the place - but al-Qaeda's Saudi army was gathering. There was another, companion message. A message of pressing U.S. interest: Find...