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...don’t think it will affect the recall campaign. I think if Bill Clinton hadn’t gotten that BJ in the Oval Office, it might very well have affected the campaign a great deal. But I think the public kind of got inoculated to the idea that a lot of their politicians are human...
...seem worried that his troubles might be contagious. "We feel for them," says one senior aide, "but our situation is different." Still, every political blow Blair takes seems to increase his stature in President Bush's eyes. "Maybe Bush will put a bust of Blair in the Oval," jokes a second aide. It wouldn't be unprecedented. He keeps one of another wartime Prime Minister in that office: Winston Churchill. --By John F. Dickerson and Jeff...
Jackson's Makeover The old boy is freed from his confining oval, allowing his mane to flow into the border; his shoulders are bulked...
...pressure from Arab leaders. A month after the President's speech, King Abdullah of Jordan and his Foreign Minister, Marwan Muasher, went to Washington to plead with Bush to follow up his words with a plan. Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Adviser, rejected the idea. But in the Oval Office, King Abdullah and Muasher appealed directly to the President. The parties needed a guide, Muasher told Bush, to reach the goals laid out in his speech. "Sounds like a good idea to me," Bush replied. Suddenly the road map was born...
...high poll numbers mean he can afford to brush off pesky post-mortems. Blair doesn't have that luxury. Only 42% of British voters approve of his job performance. As always, Blair will reserve any criticisms he may have of Washington for the secure telephone line to the Oval Office. But not even British understatement could keep his aides from venting their regret that Rumsfeld had ever opened his mouth--and from praying that those WMD finally turn up. --By J.F.O. McAllister/London