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Person: George Dubya Bush

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Coming to terms with Bush trumping Donald

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Coming to terms with Bush trumping Donald

I’ve been writing this column since Bill Clinton lied about a blow job in the Oval Office, spurring my sister to write her doctoral thesis about the role of the special prosecutor, then Kenneth Starr.

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Why do we give nicknames and what does yours say about you?
Cowen’s choice: Sell the bailout to the people or risk being pushed out
Bertie kow-tows to Americans but treats Irish citizens with contempt
George Dubya makes me glad there isn’t a drop of oil here
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IT WAS with a certain sardonic smile that I scanned the headline in one of the Sunday papers last weekend: “Bush to tell IRA it must renounce violence.”

Fri, 14 Mar, 2003

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