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George Bush Sr.

2004

• September 7 -- Reviving an Anti-Bush Sr. Urban Legend
Kate Zernike revives an anti-Bush Sr. urban legend, the myth that during the 1992 campaign, George H.W. Bush marveled at a grocery-store scanner as if he'd never seen one before.

• August 31 -- GHWB vs. NYT
Bush Sr. on the NYT: "It's consistently liberal, consistently opposes the president on almost everything editorial….I've given up on them."

• July 27 -- "Social Conservatives" vs. "Inclusion"
David Halbfinger knows what went wrong for the Republicans in 1992.

 

December 16 -- After Saddam's Capture: Beating Around the Bushes
Todd Purdum personalizes the capture of Saddam Hussein as the Bush family settling scores with an ancient enemy (Dana Carvey is cited). Spying a potential wedge between the Bushes, Purdum takes up Bush Sr.'s side: "There were ample reasons for the first President Bush not to go after Mr. Hussein."

 

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