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...hungry is Bush? In late April, when former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had suggested to the President's father that Dubya's foreign policy was off course, stopped at the White House to meet with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, the President dropped by for two minutes--and stayed for 20, pumping Gorby for advice. Bush has also heard from another old hand, the one whom Americans hope he consults but whom White House image-mongers are most sensitive about...
...served multiple purposes. It was not just a signal to foreign policy hawks and neo-isolationists that the new Republican president would be less inclined to dispatch envoys or peace-keepers to troubled regions of the world. Humility was a code word designed to reassure voters who feared that Dubya might be too smart-alecky and cocksure to be trusted in the Oval Office. On the campaign trail, the Texas governor tended to exude the opposite of humility. Bush was playing against type, countering the perception of his callowness with a pledge to be earnest and humble. He was saying...
JOHN BREAUX Louisiana Sen. muscles four fellow Dems to vote for Dubya's budget, making him G.O.P...
...rumored that Dick Cheney is the stealth President, but is it possible that the actual President has his own clandestine occupation? Could he be the stealth baseball commissioner? While Bud Selig, commissioner in fact, has been relegated to mutterances about (but not solving) labor disputes, Dubya's been promoting the game nationwide, grabbing flashbulbs and credit for the first pitch at the Brewers' new stadium, top, while Selig--former team owner--lobbed his pitch in anonymity and had to vie for press by dedicating two statues out front. Further evidence...
...Utah, hit the young-Republican circuit with Lee Atwater, who became George Bush Sr.'s 1988 campaign mastermind. Rove, who dropped out to become a full-time operative, also worked for the father and thus met the son. He became the top consultant in Texas and eventually saw in Dubya a natural politician who--guided by Rove, of course--could not only reach the White House but also usher in a permanent Republican majority. "When the President was growing up, he wanted to be Willie Mays," says Mark McKinnon, the Bush campaign's admaker. "But when Karl was growing...