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Bush and Cheney - both former
company directors and CEOs |
TWO WORDS SUM up the defining moment of George W Bush's
tenure as president thus far: Jim Jeffords. It might sound trivial
to rank the senator for Vermont above September 11 and its
aftermath but no other incident encapsulates so clearly the mindset
of the Bush administration as the Republican senator's defection.
Jeffords is a moderate from a liberal state. His rapport with the
Bush administration was never going to be strong, and he soon
clashed with it over the proposed $1.3 trillion tax cut that formed
a central part of Bush's election platform of what to do with a
proposed 10-year budget surplus of up to $5.5 trillion.
The relationship degenerated into a childish he-said-she-said
routine, culminating with the administration neglecting to invite
Jeffords to a party at the White House for a Vermont teacher who
had won a national...
