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...Bush. "He's 41. I'm 43. It is a great pleasure to honor No. 42." The first White House portrait by a black artist (Simmie Knox), the largest of the modern paintings (at 65 5/8 in. by 53 7/8 in.) and the only picture to include a flag, Clinton's Portrait nudges George H.W. Bush's from the premier spot in the Foyer. Each likeness in the gallery has its lore. A docent's tour...
...sinking California sun turned soft red and a breeze ruffled the hillside when Ronald Reagan was laid to rest on the magnificent stage created for his last bow. As the final taps floated out over the shimmering Pacific Ocean, Nancy Reagan held the flag from his casket close to her. She was worn but still resolute from the long week of farewell...
...travelers came back to the casket alone or in clusters to stand for a moment beside the man they had followed and worshipped. They reached out to touch the flag, and they wept, but they were not broken people. More often than not they whispered their undimmed gratitude. "Thank God I knew him. He changed my life...
That gimmick is a big draw with the lot's low-income clientele--black families, white guys with Confederate-flag license plates--who are stretching their budgets severely. Yet Bennett feels he's giving them something: a sense of victory. If they're going to get taken anyway, let them walk away feeling they did some taking too. "What's a good deal?" he asks. "It's what you think is a good deal...
...careful not to repeat. Though he ran in 2000 on a platform as hard edged as any President's since, well, Reagan's, he was careful to style himself that year as a "compassionate conservative." One of Bush's recent campaign commercialsa girl watches her father raising an American flag as a narrator assures us that "America is turning the corner"--could be an outtake from Reagan's famous 1984 "Morning in America" campaign...