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Bush has quietly reinstated a tradition dating back to Woodrow Wilson that his father had halted in 1990. The elder Bush was weary of infighting among various Confederacy groups, so his White House quit participating altogether. The current Bush White House denies any change in policy. But John Edward Hurley, head of the Confederate Memorial Association in Washington, says, "No one saw a wreath from 1990 until George W. Bush got elected," and other participants in the annual event support his account...
...article "Look Away, Dixieland" [Jan. 27] stated that President George W. Bush "quietly reinstated" a tradition of having the White House deliver a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery - a practice "that his father had halted in 1990." The story is wrong. First, the elder president Bush did not, as TIME reported, end the decades-old practice of the White House delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial; he changed the date on which the wreath is delivered from the day that some southern heritage groups commemorate Jefferson Davis's birthday to the federal Memorial...
...maintained his singular sense of style, Kim has lessened his reputation for kookiness. The first time the outside world got a good look at him, in June 2000 when he summited with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, he cracked jokes, demonstrated proper Confucian deference to his elder counterpart and showed a clear grasp of the issues. Then came the visit by Albright, the only senior U.S. official ever to meet Kim. "I found him very much on top of his brief," Albright recalls. He was also au courant on American culture, including the Oscars...
...another nod to his father, Romney ended his evening the way his father did: by dancing with as many women as he could before the night was over, including one woman whom he said had danced with the elder Romney 40 years earlier...
It’s a sad state of affairs. Black people only feature in the American political game as equipment on the path to victory. Republicans still hail Bush the Elder as the ultimate chess-master for his brilliant appointment of Clarence Thomas. In each election, blacks are invited to stay through election night; after that they get taken out with the celebration’s garbage. Many who describe black Democrats as an endangered species seek to orchestrate a move of which Gary Kasparov would be envious. Those who misrepresent the new black political mentality as an example...