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The weakening process began when Bush abandoned his "no new taxes" pledge and deprived Republican right-wingers of their favorite issue. Then Congress rejected the deficit-reduction package negotiated by White House aides and congressional leaders. After that, the President went from bad to worse as he alternately attacked the...
They did not quite pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor, but voters in Staten Island, N.Y., and Key Biscayne, Fla., have decided to declare their independence. By an 81% vote last week, Staten Islanders approved a commission to study the feasibility of breaking away from New York City. Staten...
She waved a broom and promised to clean up the bespattered administration of Washington's Mayor Marion Barry, convicted of possessing cocaine. And if housekeeping seemed somewhat foreign to the stiffly formal lawyer and former electric-utility executive, Sharon Pratt Dixon wasted no time carrying out her pledge. On the...
No wonder the aging cold warriors around Washington were dismayed last week. "At the start of this, we said we were not going to gradually escalate our presence the way we did in Vietnam," said former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. "Now, 90 days later, we are asking ourselves whether...
Bush voted in his home state of Texas after an energetic yet awkward campaign for GOP candidates, then returned to the White House to read the returns. Bush sparked a Republican rebellion when he broke his memorable 1988 campaign pledge and embraced an October deficitreduction plan that raised tax rates...