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...movie about J.F.K.'s handling of the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy had talking points on legislation tucked into his pocket, but all Bush wanted to do was munch hot dogs and watch the film. "The President has a lot of respect for Senator Kennedy," says senior White House adviser Karen Hughes. "He thinks the Senator is very savvy, that he's a good legislator and that he's a person of his word...
...emotions, to their increasing inclusion. While this impulse dates back to the late '70s, it has grown even stronger in recent years as middle-class parents realize their children are less connected to their racial heritage. "We are living lives that are integrated. Maybe too integrated," Los Angeles author Karen Grigsby Bates, 49, wrote in a Salon essay about her decision to involve her six-year-old son in Jack and Jill. "We began to notice our kids weren't, well, as black as we had been...
...group. In search of better jobs, dream homes and superior schools, many black families have taken root in pale places, far from their old neighborhoods and extended families. "When I got into Jack and Jill 18 years ago, most black families lived in the same part of town," says Karen Clark, an Oklahoma City mother. "The majority of our mothers now live in predominantly white communities." Annette Schley, a college administrator who lives in Bellevue, a wealthy, white Seattle suburb, joined Jack and Jill after noticing that her son Justin was uncomfortable at church around other black children. Many members...
...Many senior White House officials dispute the suggestion that Bush has an image problem--and brandish polls that show him holding solid, if not spectacular, approval ratings--but Hughes isn't one of them. "Karen gets it," says a G.O.P. consultant who has met with several top Bush aides. "A lot of the others don't." Hughes was the first top aide to recognize that the President was in trouble on the environment. She convened a special strategy meeting in April, declared that green issues "are killing us" and proposed a series of events and photo ops to highlight...
...With Reporting By John F. Dickerson, Karen Tumulty And Douglas Waller/Washington