George W Bush

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  6/24/2020
  

  The Republican Choice: How a Party Spent Decades Making Itself White

  Talk of “election integrity” by the Grand Old Party is inextricably intertwined with its modern history of pandering to racist elements of American life; any attempt to disentangle these stories and tell them separately is disingenuous, even if it angers partisans.

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• 6/30/19
  

  Colin Powell’s Recent “Lincoln Medal” Disregards A Checkered Past

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  Powell’s outstanding service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff notwithstanding, the perpetual lionizing of the general has had the effect of misbalancing the historical record. Despite of—or because of—his popularity and patriotic achievements, Powell has not been held to account for some of his major failings as a public servant.

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• SOURCE: The Cook Political Report
  6-21-18
  

  Good News for Republicans, It's Not 2006

  For, one, Trump’s job approval rating in the Gallup survey is 45 percent, eight points higher than the dismal 37 percent where George W. Bush was sitting at this point in 2006.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-13-18
  

  WaPo Headline: Donald Trump may be the best thing that ever happened to George W. Bush

  This newfound appreciation may have less to do with history and more to do with political beer goggles: It’s 2 a.m. in the nation’s capital, and suddenly every past president looks good.

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• 1/14/18
  

  The Phony Claim that Lower Taxes Will Generate Higher Revenues Is Based on this Myth

  by David L. O'Connor

  It’s a myth that’s been driving GOP tax policy for a generation.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-4-17
  

  Both Bush Presidents Worry Trump Is Blowing Up the G.O.P.

  A new book on the two Bushes provides a glance at their apprehension over Mr. Trump’s rise to power and what it means for the country.

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• SOURCE: Raw Story
  10-20-17
  

  Presidential historian Michael Beschloss explains the significance of Bush-Obama attack on Trump

  Beschloss marveled at former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama publicly denouncing President Donald Trump — albeit without mentioning his name– saying it is a huge departure in presidential decorum.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  10-20-17
  

  George W. Bush & GOP lack standing to bash Trump for Racism

  by Juan Cole

  Trump is merely the logical conclusion of the Southern strategy, and until the Republican Party comes to terms with its decades of latent racism and its rather loud dog whistle, it will create more and more Trumps.

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• 7-9-17
  

  Fake Facts Have Creeped into the Narrative of the Election of 2000

  by Sheldon Stern

  It’s simply not true that the “effect of the two third-party candidates on the electoral vote was essentially a wash.”

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  9-12-16
  

  The George W. Bush White House 'Lost' 22 Million Emails

  Like Clinton, the Bush White House used a private email server—its was owned by the Republican National Committee.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9-7-16
  

  Desert, Storm

  by Paul A. Kramer

  The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit. The untold story of the Iraq war’s toll on New Orleans.

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• 9-11-16
  

  How Religion Drove George W. Bush's Decisions: An Interview with Biographer Jean Edward Smith

  by Robin Lindley

  “Rarely in the history of the United States has the nation been so ill-served as during the presidency of George W. Bush.”

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-19-16
  

  The Chilcot Report: Bush Ignored Numerous Warnings Before Invading Iraq

  The British report demolishes one of the certainties of some opponents of the Iraq War: that Bush lied his way into war.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  7-5-16
  

  Jean Edward Smith bio of Bush II lauded

  Smith takes an almost unrelentingly negative view, calling Bush one of the worst presidents in US history.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  6-20-16
  

  Ralph Nader Still Refuses to Admit He Elected Bush

  by Jonathan Chait

  But he did.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7-1-16 (accessed)
  

  How Bad Can a President Be?

  by Thomas Mallon

  A new biography exposes the mysterious confidence behind George W. Bush’s greatest failures.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6-7-16
  

  Crimes of the War on Terror

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Should George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Others Be Jailed?

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• SOURCE: Fast Company
  5-26-16
  

  Artist Corrects Inaccuracies At The George W. Bush Library With Augmented Reality

  Visitors to the library can download a free app from Layar, point their smartphone at 10 "trigger images," and read a more balanced view of the information presented.

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• SOURCE: Simon and Schuster
  5-26-16
  

  Jean Edward Smith, biographer of FDR and Ike, has a new biography coming out … of George W. Bush

  The book, out in July, will be published by Simon & Schuster.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  5-9-16
  

  New Photos Show President Bush's Initial Response to 9/11 Attacks

  The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Friday released new photos of the president responding to the 9/11 attacks.