George W. Bush Quotes
It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.
Mondale was contrasting the Carter Administration with that of the then present George W. Bush Administration. The latter had misled the American people about the reasons for the Iraq war, and cabinet members had misled congress while the Vice President’s Chief of Staff was convicted of lying to the Justice Department as well as other transgressions of truth. The administration tried to seize a series of powers and implemented practices that the courts ruled were illegal and the Supreme Court twice ruled their actions illegal. At the time the nation was embroiled in the Iraq War. History may treat the Carter administration differently over time, but the general assessment of historians is that it was a poor to mediocre Presidency. Mondale, compared the Carter Administration to the hapless Bush 41 administration and not to Regan, the elder Bush or the Clinton administrations all of which were generally considered to be much better.
He was referring to the role of an Israeli political leader who was negotiating with the PLO. The civility of shaking hands with leaders of what had been a terrorist organization that had been responsible for the deaths of many Israelis. The great statesmen have to negotiate with their enemies.
Clinton’s only political experience prior to his run for the Presidency was as a very successful Governor of Arkansas. Foreign policy was his weak suit.
Welsh met with the President on several occasions at the White House since he served on one of the major Presidential Advisory Committees.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
