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...those who are interested, however, “The Sentinel” is pretty solid entertainment. The script, though unsurprising, does include a few nice touches—Garrison is ostensibly one of the agents that took a bullet for Reagan in 1981. But as a whole, it is no improvement over screenwriter George Nolfi’s last attempt at hipping up an old genre, “Ocean?...
...Congress, which, in one poll released this week, has sunk to a 23% approval rating.) After his famed "malaise" speech in 1979, in which he said the country was going through a "crisis of confidence," President Jimmy Carter offed his secretaries of Treasury and Health Education and Welfare. Ronald Reagan famously reshuffled his White House staff after the Iran-Contra affair and Bill Clinton reached out to Dick Morris, the political consultant, after the Democrats' whipping in the 1994 mid-term elections...
...that Army Secretary Thomas White, a former Enron executive who vainly tried to thwart Rumsfeld's decision to kill the Crusader, was one more mistake away from losing his job. "It's pretty clear that the Army is going to be the big loser," says Lawrence Korb, a top Reagan-era Pentagon aide. "If it were not for the war in Afghanistan and the looming war in Iraq, I'm sure they would already be cutting two Army divisions...
...teeth. It's not just the number, 34% - Truman holds the record, when only 23% approved of the job he was doing in November of 1951, and Nixon fell as low as 24%. (In contrast, among the most beloved in year six of their presidencies were Eisenhower at 64%, Reagan at 63.5% and Clinton at 57%.) What struck the surveyors was Bush's 60% disapproval number, and the fact that 47% stronglydisapprove. That's like trying to climb out of a deep hole filled with big rocks - with new rocks being thrown in each week, labeled War, Katrina, Meirs, Dubai...
...Professor of Business and Government and Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter issued the evening’s keynote address, blending explicit advice about "being tough" with scattered anecdotes about his experiences working in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Porter, who teaches the popular course Government 1540: "The American Presidency" reflected during his talk, on the time when former President George H. W. Bush generously shared his swanky summer wardrobe after Porter had come to a meeting at his home noticeably overdressed...