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...your power. "If I were interviewing a guy for the job of President," Bush offers, "I'd ask, How do you make decisions? How would you get unfiltered information? Would you surround yourself with hacks? Are you scared of smart people? I've seen the effect of the Oval Office on people. People are prepared to come in and speak their minds, and then they get in there, and the place overwhelms them, and they say, 'Gee, Mr. President, you're looking good.' I need people who can walk in and say, 'Hey, you're not looking so great today...
...going to say $1.6 trillion. People are going to get upset about it, but we're going to say it over and over. Are we going to compromise? When I say the time is right. Until then we're going to say 1.6." One day, walking out of the Oval Office, he said, "Nicky, don't wobble." In May, Bush got his deal, at $1.3 trillion...
...going down on the Christmas decorations in the Oval Office, and the President wanted a present. For five months in 2001, the education barons in Congress had been haggling over Bush's signature education-reform bill, No Child Left Behind. "I've asked you all to come down here to get something done," said Bush, careful to spread his eyes across all four visitors. This was not the moment to show his contempt for the impulse of lawmakers to stonewall and grandstand and leak as they pursue their narrow self-interests. This was a moment for ego massage...
...vice-presidential candidates. Edwards is young, charismatic, intelligent and ambitious and is from a working-class family; Dick Cheney comes across as old, stodgy, curmudgeonly and boring. His health is a real negative. Keep in mind that the Vice President is just a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Now, who do you want in the line of succession?Edwards, who is trim and fit, or Cheney? McConnell Sanders Los Molinos...
...Americans look more politically motivated than they have been in more than a decade—since Bill Clinton’s first presidential election in 1992, when a generation of grunge-rock inspired activists answered Nirvana’s call to kick George Bush Sr. out of the Oval Office...