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Article: RAISING RED FLAGS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 30, 1989
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WASHINGTON - President Bush is discovering that it is much
easier to wrap a presidential campaign in the flag than to wrap a
government in it. Abbie Hoffman would be in stitches.
Within 24 hours of Bush's impulsive announcement on Tuesday
calling for a constitutional amendment to permit Congress and the
states to pass laws protecting the flag from the handful of
desecrations it suffers each year, the White House found itself
unable to write one, and bucked the issue to Capitol Hill. The
president's allies there will now do the dirty work and he will
cheerlead.
The president enjoys momentum from the heat of the moment,
fueled by the refusal of politicians to let themselves be smeared ...