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...midweek Bush himself was chafing at the Truman approach. So he sought help from outside advisers, including two key figures from his 1988 campaign: political adman Roger Ailes and pollster Robert Teeter. Both men told Bush that his attempts to hang the budget mess on the Democrats looked defensive and that he would do better to change the subject. "Let's remind people that we've got some good things accomplished," a third adviser recommended. "Talk about the Clean Air Act. Talk about the gulf, which is more presidential. Above all, be yourself...
This squeeze on families bodes ill for children. Twelve million youngsters have no medical coverage; 5 million teeter on the edge of homelessness. Because of poor prenatal care, a baby born in the shadow of the White House is now more likely to die in the first year of life than a baby born in Costa Rica...
...hurt him, perhaps because the President's all-hat- and-no-cattle (as Bush likes to call showy cowboys) approach to domestic problems mirrors voters' own mixed feelings about unfinished business. White House pollster Robert Teeter, who takes monthly soundings, points out that Americans want problems addressed but have little appetite for expensive big fixes. "They want him to be doing something," says Teeter, "but they don't want him to go overboard...
...Room of the Winds. Others are quite straightforward, like those in the chamber in which Federico had Giulio and his assistants paint life-size effigies of his favorite horses, with their names written underneath them. In between there is an amazing variety of images, some of which seem to teeter between grandeur and farce in a way unheard of in Renaissance art before...
Lest we forget, Bush and the Republican Party still refuse to accept their complicity in the creation our nation's current educational crisis. Eight years of conservative attacks on education spending have weakened America's social structure to the point where many school systems teeter on the brink of collapse...