The Washington Post, February 2nd, 1992
A few days before the State of the Union address and the budget message, a member of President Bush's Cabinet laid down the proper marker for judging those two basic presidential documents. "People don't expect the president to have specific answers for every problem in the world," he said. "But they expect him to show that he understands where we are as a country, where we need to go and how we're going to get there." By that standard, George Bush gets a failing grade. His State of the Union address began at the proper point, with a celebration of the historic, "almost biblical," changes and ...
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