Fred Greenstein
Fred Greenstein
bush capitol decade expected given homework people potential president savvy seems seen spent strange vice
It's a strange thing for Bush to have slipped into, given the savvy you expected from this administration, with a vice president who spent over a decade on Capitol Hill. It seems as if his people would have seen that there was potential for trouble, and at least done their homework on the Hill.
build early keys
At this point, one of the keys for the president's strategy, I suspect, is to look for an early success, and build on that.
modern outside presidency turned
When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.