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...In the midst of an otherwise straightforward description of the President's outlook at the time of the Persian Gulf crisis, there suddenly occurs this: "When he surveyed the home front, Bush was basically content...

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...The authors accuse Bush of pursuing not only a—here it comes—"trickle-down economic policy," but also a "trickle-down social agenda...

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...They report that Bush's inaugural address, laced with such words as "stewardship," "continuity," and "continuum," made clear that this would be a custodial administration, one of "day-by-day reactiveness," and they quote former Bush drug policy chief William Bennett on the President's indifference to the potential of his office for stirring political debate and moving the country in his ideological direction...

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...BOOK REVIEWS n Marching in Place, / Time magazine White House correspondents Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame set out to do a disciplined and unbiased job of appraising George Bush's presidency and wind up losing control of themselves along the way...

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...They describe his speechwriters' frustration at trying to lend power to the oratory of a man far more interested in making sure he salutes, by name, all the local VIPs in the room at the start of every address...

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...By the final chapter, the President described in chapter three as having "a core of solid convictions" has become the "stand-for-nothing president...

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...They say that both Saudi Prince Bandar and King Fand were shown satellite reconnaissance pictures, but that well-known fact hardly strengthens their charge of exaggeration, especially since the photos showed Iraqi forces massed on the Saudi border...

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...According to numerous officials, including Haass, Bush had known for hours that Saddam' s promised pullout was a fake and had been urged by spokesman Marlin Fitzwater to say something about it...

...The authors assert that, despite his denials, the President decided on day one of the Gulf crisis to "intervene militarily...

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...What this means, they report indignantly, is that "Bush and Congress erected unprecedented barriers to government's ability to deal with social, economic and international changes . . ." It does not seem to matter to the authors that this Republican President doesn't believe the budget is necessarily the best instrument for dealing with such things...

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...Just when Bush decided to use force against Iraq hasbeen a matter of considerable debate and speculation, and it's important...

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...They point to Bush's deep belief in the essential goodness of America and its institutions—as they are—and conclude that the "common criticisms that Bush 'lacks conviction' or 'doesn't believe anything' are not quite right...

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...Senator Jesse Helms is referred to as "the Republican extremist...

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...The White House even passed out a fact sheet that made it clear that the package was being offered in two phases...

...Conservatives were delighted and thought the fight was over...

...Duffy and Goodgame's account of the President's signing of the 1991 Civil Rights Bill is similarly flawed...

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...They do not specify what they mean by "intervene," but convey the unmistakable impression that the President was eager for a war to test his greatness...

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...It may be fair to accuse Bush of not being serious about the second phase, since Congress rarely acts on more than one such package in a single year, but it's simply inaccurate to report that he "abandoned" it...

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...riots erupted, the first thing the White House did was to summon not such conservative black activists as Robert Woodson and Detroit city councilman Keith Butler but such liberals as Joseph Lowery, Coretta King, and Hooks...

...They repeat the charges of his political enemies that he demagogued that issue by claiming it was a "quota bill," and that he caved in and signed it only when his position was compared to that of David Duke...

...Numerous reporters at the White House that day got the same impression Duffy and Goodgame did, but those who checked their facts—and a lot of reporters did—found out what actually happened...

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...To Bush, says Bennett, such public arguments "weren't the real work of the president...

...In the 1990 budget deal the authors see "a bipartisan sellout of the working class...

...What particularly galls them, though, is not the new taxes in the budget deal but the restrictions on spending—"complex provisions . . . which effectively froze the federal budget into rigid categories...

...In a chapter on John Sununu's role as Bush's bad cop, Duffy and Goodgame explain that "Sununu ran interference when Bush needed to shuffle to the right on such issues as judicial appointments or abortion, absorbing the blame for Bush's latest pander to his party's extremist wing...

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...The authors promise to "judge Bush's performance not against the expectations of critics on the right and left, but by the standards of his own promises and rhetoric...

...So far, so good—these are all telling illuminations of Bush's innate aversion to change and his preoccupation with personal relationships...

...Instead, there's the bald charge that Bush signed the bill to avoid resembling David Duke, which fits in with a favorite Duffy-Goodgame theme: that Bush is given to "thinly veiled race-baiting...

...On day five of the Gulf crisis, Bush returned from Camp David to be met on the White House lawn by national security staffer Richard Haass, who handed him a sheet of paper...

...Democrats in Congress, in the belief that the President would not dare veto any civil rights bill, considerably tightened the language to the point where the Justice Department and White House counsel Boyden Gray regarded it as a patent quota bill, and urged the President to veto it...

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...Similarly, they accuse the President of "exaggerating the nature of the threat Iraq posed to Saudi Arabia...

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...The only trouble with the authors' account is that it's not true...

...First reported by the Washington Post, this "bait and switch," as the authors call it, was picked up by a New Hampshire newspaper, and became part of a scathing primary commercial by Patrick Buchanan...

...Some civil rights lawyers think that, once the fight broke out, the Democrats should have accepted the original Bush bill...

...Bush is what is sometimes called "goo-goo" on civil rights—a Dudley Dooright who wants to be loved, especially by old-line civil rights leaders such as Benjamin Hooks...

...It would be up to the employer to justify its hiring practices in light of any "disparate impact" on a minority...

...chapter on Bush's economic policy, all pretense of neutrality is abandoned in favor of what sounds like an AFL-CIO pamphlet from the 1950s...

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...There is far too little original reporting and far too much reliance on secondary sources, even when those sources got things wrong...

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...It's those "talking points" that Bush was given on the lawn that Sunday...

...They have long since stopped judging him on his own terms...

...But beyond saying that Bush asked for "military options"—a standard procedure—Duffy and Goodgame provide no evidence or detail to buttress their contention...

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...When President Bush gave his State of the Union address last January, he set forth an economic program that included the idea of raising the personal income tax exemption by $500...

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...Duffy and Goodgame report this as follows: "Bush found Haass waiting with a summary of the latest developments inthe Gulf, including evidence that a withdrawal from Kuwait that Saddam had announced was a fraud...

...The President, say the authors, has pursued a "class agenda that has not changed much in 30 years...

...The President made plain in his speech that he was offering his package in two parts, the first a crash program to jump-start the economy, and the rest to deal with longer-term issues...

...Less than a week after the speech, his aides asked the Ways and Means Committee to adopt a narrower package of seven tax incentives...

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...It was a bitter battle that left all sides deeply distrustful of one another's motives...

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