Word: sr
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...classroom desks filled with shell-shocked kids. Visibly nervous, but smiling bravely, Bush made her way through a speech peppered with references to her husband's dedication to the Texas education system, to her (apparently idyllic) family life, and with a few nods to her in-laws. (George Sr. sat in the audience with Barbara, looking delighted). She took a few jabs at the Clinton presidency, never naming names, instead making pointed references to "restoring honor and dignity to the office." That was the biggest applause line of the night...
...that these polls matter much. Dukakis and Bush Sr. both had bigger summer leads than this melt away in the falls of 1988 and 1992, respectively. In 1988, the thrill of the Massachusetts governor - and the pall on the veep - both wore off when folks started reading up and decided that more of the same was OK by them. In 1992, they wanted something different...
...most richly endowed philanthropic organization on earth, last year surpassing Britain's Wellcome Trust. Or look at it this way: Gates, 44, has given more money away faster than anyone else in history. For Stonesifer and the Gates family--Bill, his wife Melinda and his father Bill Sr.--that means sitting down with doctors, scientists and veteran philanthropists. It means performing the research and hard-nosed analysis that Gates and Stonesifer had done for years in developing software products, but applying it instead to eradicating malaria or polio in developing countries...
...George Bush Sr. tapped Cheney to be secretary of defense, and the nomination swept through Congress in less than two weeks. Cheney's tenure at the Defense Department was eventful; he appointed General Colin Powell to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the two men worked together during the Persian Gulf War. Cheney left the Cabinet in January 1993, as the Clinton administration began...
Besides, the history of time-for-a-change politics (history that George Bush Sr. witnessed during his own career, and from which he draws his idea) is deceptive. The myth of 1960, for example, is that voters, sick of a long-familiar regime in a dreary decade (eight years of Eisenhower and his supposedly tired-blood, country club Republicans) embraced a new generation in the person of young, dashing John Kennedy, who promised to "get America moving again." Hmmm. It was not much of an embrace. Kennedy won that election by an eyelash - some think it was an electoral eyelash...