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

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (290479)	8/26/2002 4:50:02 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Since the War on Poverty was begun by LBJ, approximately 5 TRILLION dollars has been spent on the effort. Some might argue that we have not gotten our money's worth. * * *

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (290479)	8/26/2002 4:51:19 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bill Clinton's debt to Jewish-Americans and Israel: The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the community, Jewish leaders and U.S. official acknowledge. But so is the amount of money they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of the influential Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "estimated Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the funds for [President Bill] Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign."[note 6]