Bush looks to historic parallels for final legacy

Bush looks to historic parallels for final legacy

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the Lincoln Bedroom, President George W. Bush likes to show off one of the most treasured historical artifacts in the White House, a handwritten copy of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address.

The building's walls speak of past battles, victories, defeats, heartache. President George Washington's portrait hangs in the Oval Office. Civil War Commander and two-term President Ulysses Grant is placed in Bush's private study.

The Queen's Bedroom offers memories of Winston Churchill, who stayed there before and after World War Two, as Bush told C-SPAN, "waddling around ... with a cigar in one hand, a brandy in the other, demanding attention."

As Bush marks the Presidents Day holiday and George Washington's 275th birthday on Monday, he faces a drumbeat of criticism for the event that will likely be a big part of his legacy -- the
Iraq war. The president believes it will take some time to determine his place in the pantheon of presidents, despite the negative assessments some historians have already made.

"I don't think you'll really get the full history of the Bush administration until long after I'm gone. I tell people I'm reading books on George Washington and they're still analyzing his presidency," Bush told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview last month.

Many in the current crop of historians are already prepared to declare Bush's presidency a failure.

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He staked everything on the Iraq war, and we all know how that's turning out.

and he doesn't see this coming?

No kidding. It will take decades to uncover the coverups and intricate ruses and the misleads and the lies and the omissions. Let us hope there are thousands of good scholars and lawyers who refuse to give up on the hunt for the truth.
If this country is to survive another 100 years the truth of this administration must be told, studied and made an example of.

if it should turn out that some Bush appointee in the Pentagon kept in touch with Osama bin Laden to tell him what the latest plan was to catch him so he could stay one step ahead.

I'm just askin :shrug:

or Caligula

look like a fine, incorruptible President in comparison.

about past Presidents, many bad things ARE downplayed in favor of promoting the positive thongs they accomplished.

The problem I see with Shrub is there are NO POSITIVE THINGS to promote!


The only thing I can imagine that might be recognized by SOME are his tax cuts, and the ONLY people who believe THEY were positive are the few who benefited!

the strategic reserve at $55 per barrel (of course before he took power oil was $10).

That's the positive stuff from me.

are from outside this country. He will be remembered with all the other monsters throughout history.

about eight years. Millions of jobs gone. Death, destruction, mayhem ,lies, corruption and on and on...I believe his legacy may be that he was the most hated and corrupted man in the world that the world did nothing to stop. Worst president ever? Yet eight years and unscathed other than some verbal abuse and hundreds of books. His legacy is that the american people will allow for two terms the worst president yet in history to remain in power even when the people have the right to have him removed. He certainly has set a new bar for the peoples contentedness, laziness, and toleration. He obviously represents a large percent of a majority as he has never given in and yet remains. Perhaps next time he comes through town the people can come out-of-doors long enough to throw Al Franken books at him. Observation.

It will just keep getting worse and worse and worse as things are revealed and analyzed.

instead of looking at history, a dimension in which a Chimp tries to become Fuhrer.

If Bush wants to bring on the Apocalypse and the Rapture...
then why the hell is he worried about his 'legacy'?

'Legacy' sorta implies that there's going to be people around to experience it, right?

If he's going on the 'Left Behind' premise...that all the Good Guys (in which subset he includes himself, of course) are raptured, then Bush's 'legacy' to the people left certainly won't be...er...widely appreciated...

And the crapture Raptured folk will have no need or use of ANY legacy, because they'll be ostensibly par-TAYIN' in Heaven.

This cognitive dissonance is really getting on my nerves...:banghead:

all those related Royals, moving the "little people" around their particular chess board....

to believe his own propaganda. and the fawning bootlicking of his toadies.