Word: oval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Election Day he never went to the Oval Office, a rare departure from his schedule. He stayed in the White House's private quarters, padding around some of the time in a jogging outfit, phoning old friends and sampling the early television bulletins. His pollster Richard Wirthlin came around, and the two men looked at the figures. A sudden drop in Bush support in some spots had caused overnight concern, but then the tracking data through the day showed a solid Bush lead. He cut the photo opportunities down to a lone picture of Nancy and him watching the early...
...votes of more than 46 million Americans, Bush was elevated onto a higher plane. The years in the shadows, the natural deference to others, the small humiliations of a perpetual office seeker are all behind him. As President, as that man at the big desk in the Oval Office, Bush will now have to articulate to what ends he plans to harness that ambition. For as , Bush said, contemplating the sober weight of his overwhelming victory, "There's lots of work...
...constituency about what he plans to accomplish. But almost all the causes Bush embraced were both negative and irrelevant to the White House; it would be a bizarre ritual, to say the least, if a President Bush solemnly recited the Pledge of Allegiance each time he stepped into the Oval Office. Dukakis' presidential agenda was almost as shadowy. Even as an underdog presumably liberated from crass campaign calculus, he chose sound-bite slogans over a last chance to talk sense to the American people...
Come the morning light with victory, the President-elect, whoever he may be, will have to shed his warted and rancid campaign in a hurry if he wants success in the Oval Office. He will have to be human again...
...worry now is that the negative, strident presidential politics of this age, which never let up because of the permanent industry of polling, consulting and campaign handling, will carry over into the Oval Office. The winner, intensely engrossed for so long in confrontational tactics to gain his prize, knows little else. Jimmy Carter, the avenging angel of the politics of "goodness," was so taken with his campaign achievement, narrow though it was, that he tried it with arms control, springing a plan for huge cuts on the Soviets. He offended the Kremlin with his arrogance and lost precious years...