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In the days before George??W. Bush was re-elected President of the United States, a story spread through the back alleys of official Washington: Bush had allegedly called Secretary of State Colin Powell into his office and said, "I had to be a war President in my first term. I want to be a peace President in my second term, and I need you to stay on and help me do that." The story was false. Several of Powell's close associates not only denied the story but also laughed when they heard it--they have seen...
In the summer of 1988, Vice President George??H. W. Bush was foundering. His opponent in the presidential race, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, was doing well in the polls. That fall, however, pro-Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fiancé. Republicans said Dukakis had turned...
Free-Trader David Lloyd George, then Prime Minister, plucked Lord Mayor Chamberlain from Birmingham and brought him on the national scene as Director of National Service (1916-17). At the last British election (TIME, Nov. 9), the Conservative machine which Neville Chamberlain had overhauled obliterated Mr. Lloyd George??? and rolled up for the Conservative Party the largest majority ever won by any British party: 472 seats out of the House total...
...Dozed through a torpid week during which Miss Megan Lloyd George???large daughter of small David?was selected by the Liberal party machine to stand for election to Parliament in the constituency of Anglesey, called "The Mother of Wales...
...conductor of the first railroad train that entered the city (1845). When Union troops burned the town in the Civil War, he was already doing a real estate business there; and he, as much as anyone else, helped the rebuilding. His sons? able, active Forrest and able, quiet George???continued to trade lots. At one time or another these men and their sons have handled practically every piece of real estate in Atlanta. Forrest Adair has won national repute among Masons for beginning, at Atlanta, the movement for Masonic hospitals for crippled children. He is a Past Illustrious Potentate...