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...Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr were the same height — towering over tiny Ross Perot, the feisty independent challenger they beat into third place. Bush Sr was taller than Dukakis....
...James Baker was a shrewd secretary of state who enjoyed the trust of the president. Bush Sr understood the importance of restraint....
...Michael Mukasey, attorney-general from 2007 to 2009 under George W Bush, said Mr Barr had “a terrific backbone”....
...At one point the line-up included former US president George Bush Sr, his secretary of state James Baker, former British prime minister John Major and former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss...
...Howard Henry Baker was born on November 15 1925, the son of Henry Sr, later a Republican congressman from Tennessee....
...A week before the collapse of MF Global last October, Russell Wasendorf Sr stood before a gathering of 350 senior financial industry figures in Naples, Florida to introduce George W. Bush....
...In the 10 months leading up to George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004, the US economy posted relatively strong average monthly job gains of 186,000. The contrast with his father, George H.W....
...He said New Hampshire voters should defy expectations and – like they did in 1980, when they picked Ronald Reagan over George H.W. Bush, reversing the Iowa result – select a bolder conservative....
...“I find it very hard to imagine him running back towards the middle – it is not in his temperament,” said James Henson, of the University of Texas....
...She crows about having fought George W. Bush over the Troubled Asset Relief Programme (Tarp) in late 2008....
...The Washington ballot could also be a bellwether for the looming debate in Congress over the expiry of individual tax cuts enacted under George W....
...One came in 2001 at the beginning of the administration of President George W Bush and one two years later....
...The movie emphasises Bush Sr’s strong sense of family, and Stone notes that while W had a conflicted relationship with his father, the idea of family values became central to his personality and politics...
...The report of the Iraq Study Group, headed by James Baker, secretary of state to George Bush Sr, and Lee Hamilton, the former Democratic congressman, pulls few punches, except perhaps in its almost histrionic...
...The world would be a safer place if George W....
...In the above accounts I have borrowed W.G. Sebald’s convention in his novel (or is it?)...
...Why, for example, should some stutterers - W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James - stutter in one language, English in both cases, and not in others?...
...James Harding is the FT’s Washington bureau chief....
...Through four nights of September 11 tributes, assaults on John Kerry, partisanship, nationalism, and the politics of hope and fear, George H.W....
...Granoff, President and CEO, Pomona Capital Earl Graves, Sr., Chairman and CEO, Earl G....
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