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Bush's Lukewarm Welcome Though every new President gets something of a honeymoon with his constituency, George Bush's debut as Chief Executive will be marked more by cool realism than by warm affection. The TIME/CNN survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week showed that the dearth of popular enthusiasm that dogged Campaign '88 has persisted. Now it focuses on Bush and Dan Quayle...
...Elaine, no complaints and a happy honeymoon...
...Bennett Johnston has a message for George Bush. Stripped of the sweet words whispered to any new President during his honeymoon, the bad news is this: Read my lips. You go first...
George Bush did not expect a honeymoon, but he did not get even the quiet Florida fishing weekend he had hoped for. Just after American voters overwhelmingly chose him over Michael Dukakis, the world's financial markets sent Bush a message of their own: the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 75 points, followed by the dollar's drop to near postwar lows against the yen. Investors who had sat quietly through candidate Bush's repeated taunts to Congress to "Read my lips -- no new taxes" decided that President-elect Bush had no convincing plan to cut the nation's towering...
NATION: The markets read George Bush' s lips and send him a message: there' ll be no honeymoon...