inauguration. bush cultivated both members of congress and he would, when necessary, compromise, on legislation on the substance of legislation with democrats. in fact, he did a lot of cultivating, which was not even second nature. first nature. and of necessity, he did a lot of compromising. and to the question arises when you look at this element of strategy is whether bush completely understood how much congress had changed. he did seem to have expected personal friendships and the cultivation of members to payoff in support much more than they actually did. well, the second strategy is the veto. after all, the veto is the president s ultimate constitutional weapon. bush used the veto and used the veto threat well with success. i have a bit of analysis of both in the paper. too much to talk about here. well, as you all know now, if you didn t before, bush had only one veto overridden. i shall also say that veto threats were used quite effectively. veto threats generally di
i want to close just by saying something about the technology of communications in the white house in 1989 to 1992. you have to remember, that was 20 years ago. we used our voices and words. we did not have cell phones or blackberry or e-mail. we called or mailed or faxed. you could not do a conference call from the white house. we had gerald ford phones. we ate lunch together at the white house mess. we discussed things. today, you e-mail or twitter. it is interesting to see how george bush would operate in a social media environment. i don t think i sent more than five e-mails in the white house. we got intranet in 1992. everything put there could be subpoenaed. it scared us. we inclined not to want to do that to begin with. but, we also were not used to it. i didn t think anybody would read them. i don t know if it was you or somebody else. i ll use it. i ll schedule meetings this way. everybody come to a meeting. this poor guy. i think it was roger porter. sat for an
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and what he did when he was in the army and what he accomplished after the army making an important figure in the history of the u.s. army certainly during the first 40 year of the 20th century. i would argue that summerall was, perhaps, one of the five or six most significant officers that served during this period. i think the others i would put in that category would be general per,king, leonard wood who was chief of staff from 1910-1914 and a fairly controversial figure in himself, peyton march who was the chief of staff for the army and energized the war department during world war i, douglas macarthur who succeeded summerall as chief of staff, mcarthur from 30- 35. and perhaps another little-known figure, jay franklin bell who was chief of staff of the army from 1906-1910 and was the first chief of staff that really understood how a general s staff was supposed to operate. but i would put summerall in the pantheon of these army leaders of that period of the early 20th
extremely helpful in my committee assignments to serve you and the nation in congress. it is really unfortunate that there are not as many veterans that serve in congress today. there are probably less than 20 of us that have served in a theatre of war and is pretty stunning. not long ago, i was able to say to john dingell that i do in the in that if god had given me the choice in military or congress, i would have chosen to serve in the congress where members have served in world war ii and korea. they understood the american character. they understood a character that was formed and forced out of the course also very difficult times, and they were task through time to actually go to foreign lands, to go to places where they had never been to fight for people that have never met. the left freedom in their footsteps and left lord ones behind. they understood something very powerful. left glove ones behind. load once loved ones behind. how about those in congress being a