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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...presidential transformations can be reversed. The presidential Nixon of 1969 ended as the bitter, thuggish ghost of San Clemente. Lyndon Johnson, messiah of the Great Society, finished his life as the King Lear of the Hill Country. And Bill Clinton, the shoeshine and the smile of the '90s, confirms everyone's worst suspicions as he departs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Transformations — and Regressions | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...LYNDON B. JOHNSON, 1965 THEME "Peace" REALITY Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theme Dreams | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...century trains. Yet moments later, we always saw him, just like Wile E. Coyote or Daffy Duck, completely reassembled and eagerly pursuing his next crazy scheme. Essentially, people love cartoon characters because they cannot be hurt. They defy the rules of Greek tragedy. Clinton, unlike Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson, was not undone by his flaws. Whenever the smoke cleared, Clinton remained standing, covered in soot and looking at us slightly chagrined. But before we could pity him, the music was back on, and he was confidently strutting across the New Mexican landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I'll Miss About Bill Clinton | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...each field he's tried, and he's always selected good ones. In Texas he chose (or was chosen by; let's keep that open) lieutenant governor Bob Bullock, one of the shrewdest s.o.b.s who ever walked. Let's just say that if Bush had studied politics under Lyndon Johnson or Machiavelli, he couldn't have done better. Dick Cheney is apparently the new mentor, and I'm favorably impressed, certainly by Cheney's demeanor; one worries because his voting record is so nutsoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, We'll Survive | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...past, departing presidents have left the White House with their wives and retired quietly to their origins - Harry and Bess to Independence, Missouri; Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson to their ranch in Texas; the Nixons and later the Reagans to California; the Carters to Plains, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary's White House-in-Waiting? | 12/20/2000 | See Source »

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