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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (11168)	2/11/2000 8:55:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Another split occurred when M.E. Bradford was tapped to be Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The neoconservatives got in a tizzy over it because Bradford had written several essays and a book that were critical of Lincoln. Bradford was told to hit the road and Bill Bennett got the job instead. The recently converted Democrat operative being chosen over Bradford, who was a true scholar, didn't sit well with a lot of academic conservatives.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (11168)	2/11/2000 8:57:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I favored Kemp in '88. Retrospectively, I do not think he had the temperament to be president, and that Bush was better.... Whether Thatcher braced Bush for the initial commitment, his implacable will and skill in diplomacy put together a difficult coalition and ensured that saber rattling was followed by action. That was the work of a man of character.... Fiscal prudence was Republican orthodoxy. It was a normal mistake to get rolled in pursuit of deficit reduction, although Darman didn't help. I do not see it primarily as lacking backbone..... I agree that the Ford boomlet was getting absurd, and the "co-presidency" nonsense was nauseating. But I also think that there were not a lot of contenders, and that Bush made a respectable president in his own right......