Word: whitmans
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...about traveling to places, physical and mental, that most people would rather avoid. Johnson comes, and he sees, and he writes about it. Sometimes he passes judgment. Unsurprisingly, he puts it best himself: “I want to float above the fray, want to be like Walt Whitman, ‘both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.’” Johnson’s only shortfall is the shortness of his output—I’d like to find some more strange places to send...
...energy proposal that will be shortly submitted from the vice president's task force will include a small provision calling for opening up a small portion of ANWR for energy development," said the president's mouthpiece. So was Whitman getting ditched again? "I think there was some confusion... as a result of a newspaper story or magazine story, and then that confusion was resolved," Fleischer replied...
...This, of course, is also the scenario in which Whitman looks really, really ignored...
...from trying to make Christie Whitman look bad, these ritual undercuttings - on CO2 emissions in March and now ANWR - are part of an exquisitely orchestrated plot to make Whitman, whose environmental record as New Jersey governor was far from mint green, into the Sierra Club's Woman of the Year...
...this method of managing the fuming environmental lobby, Interior Secretary Gale Norton - who was undercutting Whitman on other channels before the Sunday shows even went off the air - plays the devil on Bush's right shoulder, and Whitman gets put on his left as the administration's own environmental underdog, a safely declawed, in-house John McCain. And when Dick Cheney thinks the time is right, bam! - having moved the entire debate 10 paces to the right, Bush strikes a deal between the extremist (Norton) and the moderate (Whitman) and calls it a benevolent compromise...