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...tougher Bush may be that he will begin reaching outside the White House for political advice from the team of savvy, experienced advisers that helped him win in 1988. Despite the respect and gratitude Bush feels for his combative and often insensitive chief of staff, John Sununu, Bush understands he will need the help of others in the politically difficult months ahead. Says one Bush intimate: "He has come to realize that Sununu is no good at message and strategy. Sununu plays to one of the President's worst tendencies, which is to think that if you concentrate on policy...
...unpopular on Capitol Hill, and his handling of budget and campaign strategies has drawn critical howls. But John Sununu is in no danger of being replaced as White House chief of staff. In fact, George Bush will rely on his top aide's conservative instincts even more heavily as the President turns sharply partisan in 1991 in preparation for the 1992 campaign. "Sununu," a Bush intimate said last week, "isn't going anywhere...
Spurred by John Sununu, his combative chief of staff, Bush sought to recover by appealing to voters over the heads of a "do-nothing Congress," just as the Democrat Truman had done more than four decades earlier. Jim Pinkerton, 32, the White House policy-planning chief, had urged this strategy for months after poring over accounts of Truman's 1948 campaign, in which he pressed his social program, bashed Republican lawmakers for obstructing it and convinced voters to replace them with Democrats. This time, however, neither the actor nor the stage seemed to fit the script. Voters, while disgusted...
Neither Bush nor any of his governing brotherhood -- Baker, Cheney, Powell, Scowcroft, Sununu -- were at the Tuesday luncheons in the 1960s when a swaggering Johnson thumped a map with his forefinger and unleashed massive American power -- only to fail. Many of the current members of Congress were in grade school when the Vietnam commitment climbed to 540,000 troops. Some of the television reporters now graphically describing the Iraqi commitment on the nightly news were not even born back then. This is a time to let history speak and then to listen to its warnings...
...have mainly benefited those who earn more than $200,000 annually. He torpedoed the party's effort to expand its base by vetoing a civil rights bill that would have made it easier for women and minorities to prove job discrimination. He unleashed his truculent chief of staff, John Sununu, on congressional Republicans who opposed him. Last week he worked behind the scenes to fire Ed Rollins, co-chairman of the G.O.P.'s congressional campaign committee. With enemies like Bush, the Democrats don't need friends...