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...writes them; he likes one-person oral briefings, and she provides them. He doesn't want to hear a cacophony of competing voices; she ensures that disputes are resolved before they reach him. And Rice hangs out with the First Family--spending a week at the Crawford Ranch last month, going up to Camp David for relaxing weekends. Rice and Bush watch movies and sports together...
Moderates look to Powell for that. Says a British diplomat: "We view him as someone who will be proved right in the end." But two weeks ago in Moscow, arms-control envoy Bolton implied that Bush wanted the "ranch summit" with Putin in November to constitute a deadline for a deal. Only hours later, Washington officials insisted that it was a mistranslation, but rumors still swirl of an impending deadline "a very few months away." An official deeply involved in the issue tells TIME, "There'll be something by Crawford, because the President is never wrong...
...meantime, Bush says, Congress must exercise restraint on the 13 major spending bills being considered before the new fiscal year starts on Oct. 1. "Don't overspend," Bush cautioned Congress during a press conference near his Texas ranch last Friday. "One of my jobs as President is to make sure we keep fiscal sanity in the budget." But Democrats argue that it was Bush who started the insanity--with the same tax cut he is hailing as a cure-all. "He claimed we could afford his massive tax cut, a major defense buildup, more money for education, while paying down...
...Mexican President has ever had the chemistry with a U.S. President that Fox has with George W. Bush. The first foreign leader to play host to Bush as President, Fox will be Bush's first state visitor next week. Their agenda: a sequel to their talks at Fox's ranch house in San Cristobal last February. Topping the agenda is a proposed new U.S. immigration policy for Mexico...
...they would be held far from Washington in the middle of August. But to tie them together, to make it seem as though the President were engaged in some concentrated activity of presidential purpose, they would name the entire series of trips - together with his down time at his ranch in Crawford, Texas - the "Home to the Heartland" tour...