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You could say Bush learned his respect for constancy the hard way. His midlife crisis consisted not of moody indulgence, a motorcycle or a mistress but the opposite: quitting the booze, finding the Bible, buckling down. With enough discipline, you can accomplish transformation. His political life reflects his personal rhythm...
Most of Iraq was not actually in flames in April, but it looked that way on TV, and Bush had to perform the cleansing ritual he likes least: a prime-time press conference, in the East Room. Asked by a TIME correspondent what he considered his biggest mistake and what...
Bush constantly cites the example of postwar Germany and Japan to argue that it is far too soon to call Iraq a failure. In turn he sounds like Truman, Johnson and Reagan when he says war and its aftermath are always hard and messy, that a failed state would be...
Bush is the first to say "I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player." While he reads history like a user's manual--he has finished Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton and is now on to one about Charles Lindbergh--Bush typically seems less curious...
If Clinton implied that the essence of wisdom is being able to change, Bush has learned that for him, wisdom lies in knowing when not to. In foreign policy, he views resolution as a weapon: enemies will yield only if they conclude that he will not. At home he sees...