whitehouse.gov - 12/18/2008
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whitehouse.gov —
President Bush on Thursday said, "I have found
that in order to have good decision-making and a
White House that functions well, that the President needs to articulate a set of principles from which he will not defer. In other words, a set of ...
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President Bush Addresses the American Enterprise ...
thinkprogress.org - 12/18/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
In 2000, when then-Texas Governor George W. Bush
officially became the President-elect, he said that he was
“optimistic that we can change the tone in Washington, DC. ” But now, after eight contentious years in the White House, Bush is ...
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Bush admits he didn’t ‘do a very good job’ of changing ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 12/21/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
CHANGING THE TONE.... It was one of those
moments that defined the Bush/Cheney era. Sen. Pat Leahy
(D-Vt.), the leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, had been critical of Dick Cheney's ongoing ties to Halliburton, but when he saw...
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Changing the tone
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Bush admits he didn’t ‘do a very good job’ of changing the tone in Washington.
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In 2000, when then-Texas Governor George W. Bush officially became the President-elect, he said that he was “optimistic that we can change the tone in Washington, DC.” But now, after eight contentious years in the White House, Bush is admitting that he failed. During a discussion at the American Enterprise Institute today, Bush said that though he came into office “with the idea of changing the tone in Washington,” he “didn’t do a very good job of it.” Watch it: ...
"I came with the idea of changing the tone in Washington, and frankly didn't do a very good job of it."
Althouse —
"You know, war brings out a lot of heated rhetoric and a lot of emotion. I fully understand that." "Reflections by a guy who’s headed out of town... An old sage at 62 ... headed to retirement." He looks utterly depleted and sad. Look how he slumps in the chair -- drained even of the vanity that it would take to make the slight effort it would take to hide his pot belly. ...
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