How to Pick a War President
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Forty-four years ago, on Sept. 26, 1960, the first presidential debate in American history was held in Chicago. Between 60 million and 70 million Americans watched Richard
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President Bush faces some unusually early foreign-policy decisions that will signal whether he&#39;ll stick with the aggressive, go-it-alone approach that dominated his first term or soften its edges with diplomacy.
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CBS asked the presidential candidates to choose the one book they think would be essential to take to the White House, other than the Bible. Only one chose a book related to economics, and that was Senator John McCain, a Republican candidate who has been criticized for lacking economic expertise. "If I could only choose one [...].
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A political drama is being played out between the president and a son-in-law with presidential aspirations.
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Both major candidates for president want the country to be less dependent on foreign oil. But whoever is elected will face many of the same challenges that defeated
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President Bush is a competitive guy. But this is one contest he would rather lose. With 18 months left in office, he is in the running for most unpopular president in the history of modern polling.
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As Bush's choice for new Secretary of Defense  gets ready to face Senate hearings, he can be sure of one thing: It will be a lot easier than 15 years ago
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Members of Congress considering running for president in 2008:
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When the next U.S. president is chosen, America may have about as many troops in Iraq as it did two years earlier, when voters tired of the war handed President George W. Bush's Republicans an election defeat.
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Here&#39;s a primer on which candidate would likely be better for voters concerned about jobs, energy costs, real estate, taxes... Still undecided about who to vote for on Nov. 2? One way to decide is to simply vote your pocketbook.
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Candidates have much at stake if the war outlasts President Bush's tenure.
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Few things a president does have the lasting impact of picking a member of the Supreme Court, an assignment that will probably come to either President Bush or Democrat John Kerry in the next four years.
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When asked whom they would trust as commander in chief, people in military service and their families chose President Bush over Sen. John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, by almost a 3-to-1 margin.
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The match-up between George W. Bush and John Kerry on Thursday will likely be decided by how they project themselves through gestures, postures, syntax and tone of voice.
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The race for the White House has come down to one thing: who can best protect America. With just one week to go security and the war on terror continue to dominate the agenda.
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The presidency comes with powerful tools that can help incumbents keep their jobs: a mighty public-relations machine, a bully pulpit, a famous airplane. Yet President Bush has been powerless to halt a recent tide of bad news, from surging violence and missing weapons in Iraq, to missteps by his own campaign, to a potentially damaging new probe by his own FBI.
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Our position is: President Bush must use a second term to protect and unify the nation. The tightness of this year&#39;s race for president speaks volumes about the unsatisfying choice facing voters: George W. Bush vs.