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Karen Hughes didn't like what she was hearing. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied...
Hughes is the adviser closest to Bush--she has been at his side since he first ran for Texas Governor in 1994--but she doesn't always prevail. She lost the battle with Calio, and the President issued his veto threat the next day. That evening, Hughes got a call from her deputy, Dan Bartlett, who had surveyed the networks' coverage of Bush's statement. "Just like we predicted," he said, sighing. "We got killed tonight...
...sixth sense about shopping, heads for Souvenirs, which is taking its signal to close from the National Anthem, now being sung. The young man locking the door lets her in, and I join the others after picking up our tickets. Caroline, of course, wants everything in sight. I veto a small bat, which I imagine her using on her infant brother Jack, and also a souvenir ball because it's too hard. In consolation she winds up with a bright red bear wearing a Spinners T-shirt...
...sued if they were directly involved in medical decisions for their workers. Republicans figured that warning about employers going out of business or canceling their health plans would draw the most blood. The White House also hoped to rattle the Kennedy-McCain-Edwards coalition with an explicit veto threat...
...last thing Bush wants to do is veto a patients bill of rights. It would just fuel public perception that he and the Republicans are tied too closely to big business. "Sure, there's some nervousness about it," one GOP senator admitted. "This is not an issue where we've been on the offense. The Democrats have been on the offense. We've been on the defense...