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...able to look into Vladimir Putin?s eyes and see his soul, but he cannot tell when an employee is lying through his teeth. On the evening of July 4, George W. Bush was approached by a White House usher who told him that his brand new Oval Office rug had arrived. Wouldn?t he like to take a peek at it? The President said he?d love to, opened the door and was greeted by 85 friends gathered for a surprise birthday party...
...school game also is about power, which expresses itself in coteries, and in sometimes savage rituals of bullying. Sex in Washington, in any case, has an adolescent, high school quality: the Big-Man-on-Campus-Hits-on-Intern motif, the stolen feels in the White House, as if the Oval Office were the front seat of Dad's borrowed Grand Marquis...
Last Wednesday morning Bush convened a war council of top aides in the Oval Office. For weeks he had hinted at the possibility of a veto if Congress sent him Kennedy's version of the patients' bill of rights. Now Bush decided to make the threat explicit the next day--in a three-page document from his Office of Management and Budget that laid out a stinging indictment of the measure. In legislative warfare, this was the equivalent...
During an Oval Office meeting in January, Bush said to Kennedy, "When you walk out of here, the press is going to try to divide us. Can we put that off to the side and work together?" Kennedy agreed--and then made good on the promise, refusing to be drawn into public discussions of their legislative differences. When reporters pointed out that Bush supports school vouchers while Kennedy loathes them, the Senator insisted there was "very broad agreement" between them. When the education bill passed on June 14, liberals were enraged by the Bush reforms Kennedy accepted, such as giving...
...summit. "The old man had been getting signals from people in Europe," the source says, and gave his son "a little dose of realism" about the continental mood. But Bush already knew trouble awaited him, so he held a secret prep session on May 31 in the Yellow Oval Room, upstairs at the White House, and invited specialists from across the political spectrum. Sure, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Rice were there, along with a host of lesser Bushies. But none of them did the talking. Instead, five outsiders briefed the President, among them Michael McFaul, a Democrat...