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There are the sensational stories that every leader occasions-war, economic setback, political upheaval-and there are the sensational stories that only a leader beset by a mass media could occasionthe president slept through a late-night aerial battle with Libyan jets, the president fell asleep during late-night phone sex with an intern, the vice president peppered a hunting companion with birdshot on a remote ranch and the White House did not report it promptly to "the networks." In the war against terror Bush has had to develop homeland security, special military units to seek out the enemy before the enemy attacks us at home, and a new grand strategy comparable to the new grand strategy the Truman administration adopted in 1947 for the Cold War.
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A Bush Crack-Up?
THANKS IN PART TO THE INTRUSIVE REPORTAGE of modern mass media, thanks in part to America's preeminent role in world politics, the chronicle of the American presidency from the Kennedy administration to the present is a concatenation of cliffhangers. From the early 1960s the news from the White House has been news of one horripilation after another. There are the sensational stories that every leader occasions-war, economic setback, political upheaval-and there are the sensational stories that only a leader beset by a mass media could occasionthe president slept through a late-night aerial battle with Libyan jets, the president fell asleep during late-night phone sex with an intern, the vice president peppered a hunting companion with birdshot on a...
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