Volume 50, Number 16 · October 23, 2003
Big Daddy
By Larry McMurtry
Bill Clinton, an American Journey: Great Expectations
by Nigel Hamilton
Random House, 736 pp., $29.95
Time may worship language, as Auden insisted, but language doesn't worship presidents, particularly not the mealy-mouthed presidents we've been served by these last thirty or so years. The present incumbent, George W. Bush, was almost strangled by his handlers at first, so desperate were they to save him from his own ignorance; the American public, it soon turned out, liked his spunk and didn't care about his ignorance. They were perfectly willing to let him learn on the job, as, in some measure, he has.
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