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...only one. For conservatives there's plenty to worry about in Bush's record. By any measure, the government is bigger, more powerful and more intrusive than when he found it. Domestic spending has gone up at a greater rate than under any other President since Lyndon Johnson. The President hasn't found a single spending bill he wanted to veto. And he cannot even blame Congress. His own party controls all of it. In foreign policy, conservatives have long tended to be realists, acting only in response to hard-faced national interest, exercising prudence and caution, only reluctantly intervening...
...DIED. PIERRE SALINGER, 79, White House press secretary for U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; in Cavaillon, France. Kennedy called Salinger, a hard-living onetime investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, "the voice of the White House." After serving in the two Administrations, Salinger went on to become abc News' chief correspondent in Europe; he won the prestigious George Polk journalism award in 1981 for his scoop on the U.S. government's secret negotiations to free American hostages held in Iran...
...DIED. LAWRENCE FREEDMAN, 85, American forensic psychiatrist who studied the darkest corners of the human mind; in Chicago. Freedman mapped the psyches of assassins, mass murderers and terrorists, hoping to understand the psychological causes of extreme violence. Appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to develop a profile of John F. Kennedy's assassins, Freedman also analyzed serial killer John Wayne Gacy in 1980, testifying for the defense in his trial. Gacy was later executed for the murder of 33 men and boys...
...illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived in the forest, was reportedly lured to his death by his doctor, who talked him into an ambulance by telling him he needed eye surgery. DIED. PIERRE SALINGER, 79, White House press secretary for U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; in Cavaillon, France. Kennedy called Salinger, a hard-living onetime investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, "the voice of the White House." After serving in the two administrations, Salinger went on to become ABC News' chief correspondent in Europe ; he won the prestigious George Polk journalism award...
...voters can be confused or frightened. New citizens, voters who don?t speak English, elderly voters or people who don?t understand all the legalities of their rights, can be intimidated by a lawyer or volunteer challenging their right to vote. Many older black voters were alive before Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and remember that there were often literacy tests and poll taxes barring their way to the ballot...