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George W. Bush: The big winner Domestically and internationally, the new president has arrived as a statesman. Despite a day or two of uncertainty, his administration quickly got its ducks in a row, avoiding any signs of appeasement while at the same time doing everything necessary to prevent a potentially volatile standoff from escalating into a crisis. He muzzled the hawks, withdrew U.S. vessels from the area and calmed American emotions to give diplomacy its best chance. Whether he helped or not, Dad ought to be proud...
...Aviv Israel's deeply divided Labor Party agreed to join Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's governing coalition. It will hold eight of 30 cabinet posts. The party chose its elder statesman, Shimon Peres, as Foreign Minister and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former general who headed the Israeli military government in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s, as Defense Minister. Salah Tarif was named a Minister Without Portfolio; he is the first Arab ever appointed to an Israeli cabinet...
...says is wise, and everything one writes goes straight to the best-seller list. Ex-Presidents do good works, make the occasional peacemaking mission, oversee the construction of a shrine for their White House relics. The biggest payoff of all as a former President transubstantiates from pol to statesman is seeing the traits that annoyed and enraged people while he was in office--Harry Truman's commonness, George Bush's blandness, Jimmy Carter's righteousness--come to be regarded as virtues. To be a successful ex-President, Bill Clinton must first find a way to let go of his presidency...
Soon after the John Ashcroft confirmation battle, a Democratic elder statesman sidled up to George W. Bush at a White House gathering. "You know, Mr. President," he said, "you can handle the Russians. You can handle the Iraqis. The one thing you can't handle is one of those Supreme Court Justices quitting...
Regarding Sharon: though clearly worried, Arafat plays the statesman. He sounds a hopeful note, pointing out that Sharon helped negotiate the interim Wye River agreement with the Palestinians in 1998, though he refused to shake Arafat's hand. "I don't care for what everybody speaks about me," he says, when asked about Sharon's insults. "I am dealing with facts and realities, not with my dreams...