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Start with the history. Can the weak economy be blamed on Bush's predecessor, on al-Qaeda, on Enron? A recession, as Bush says, "mean[s] three quarters of negative growth." The economy grew through the end of 2000, then growth turned negative in the first three quarters of 2001, including three weeks of Clinton and more than eight months of Bush. That is what allows Bush to say he inherited a recession...
RESIGNING. ARI FLEISCHER, 42, CHRISTIE TODD WHITMAN, 56, and TOMMY FRANKS, 57; from top Bush Administration posts; in Washington. Fleischer will step down after 2 1/2 years as press secretary, serving as the President's relentlessly on-message spokesman on everything from the Enron scandals to the war in Iraq; to work in the private sector. Whitman, after a rocky tenure as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she was leaving because she and her husband were tired of having a "commuter" marriage. Franks, the Army general who commanded U.S. forces during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...
Gonzales' resume isn't going to provide much fodder for conservatives--or liberals, for that matter--looking to deep-six Bush's close ally. He was a pro-business jurist in Texas for two years but no ideologue on social issues. He spent 13 years at Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, doing deals in the go-go Houston of the 1980s but before the controversial Enron transactions took place. He was generally known as a stick-to-the-law kind of attorney in Bush's office. "Very seldom, if ever, did I hear his personal views on issues," said...
...TODD WHITMAN, 56, and TOMMY FRANKS, 57; from top Bush administration posts; in Washington. Fleischer will step down to work in the private sector after two-and-a-half years as press secretary, serving as the President's relentlessly on-message and sometimes unctuous spokesman on everything from the Enron scandals to the war in Iraq. Whitman, perennially sidelined chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she and her husband were tired of having a "commuter" marriage. Franks, the Army general who commanded U.S. forces during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is retiring after 36 years in the military...
INDICTED. LEA FASTOW, 41, former assistant treasurer at Enron and the wife of the company's former chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow; for fraudulently abetting her already charged husband in various schemes; as part of the government's expanded investigation into the energy giant's collapse, which embellished the case against Andrew Fastow and also included new indictments of seven other former Enron executives, bringing the total number of those charged with Enron-related crimes to 19; by U.S. prosecutors; in Houston...