Win or lose, he realized that it was going to be very difficult to govern and that the better part of valor was to step aside.
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This is the first administration that I can remember, including Nixon's, that said we need to think about a law that would put journalists who print national security things up in front of grand juries and put them in jail if they don't reveal their sources.David Gergen
That would give you protection against Democratic attacks and restore bipartisan spirit.
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Changing the subject will not work. Giving more speeches about Iraq or the state of the economy doesn't have the weight that action does. It's dangerous for the country to have a disabled president for three years, and we're getting close to seeing that happen. I worry that they Bush and his aides are in denial.
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There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. That may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.
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I think the president has raised the stakes for himself. He has raised the stakes for his presidency, so that if there are more explosions in the next few months ... his approval ratings will suffer some more.
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