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Article: President W.(humorous look back after Year 2005 if George W. Bush becomes president)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
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- July 12, 1999
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A review of Richard Darman's Second Term, a 2005 memoir.
It was said by the British politician Enoch Powell that all political careers end in failure, except those cut off in their prime. Mr. Darman's second volume of memoirs raises, however, the sad possibility that some careers end in failure even when cut off in their prime- notably, of course, that of Mr. Darman's boss, President George W. Bush.
It is hard to recall now the scenes of Republican rejoicing that attended the coronation of "George the Second" (as a bitter Al Gore took to calling him in the last stages of Campaign 2000.) Here at last was that sturdy oxymoron-a Republican winner. He ...