The Last Summit, Reagan and Gorbachev 1988

The National Security Archive: Read the Secret US and USSR Documents from the last summit between Reagan and Gorbachev. Read of the Day.

The Impeachment of Bill Clinton

The New York Times: Reports on how the Impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 made D.C a rougher town. Read of the Day.

Bush vs Truman

The Boston Globe: Has an interesting article on the view that Bush will be seen as another Truman, low approval at the end while consider great now. The Article states the following, " Neo-cons can stop fantasizing now. Bush is no Truman,.." It is typical of the Main Stream Media, the usual reference points, Iraq, terror. The Elite Media will never forgive Bush 43 for winning in 2000, and yes he did win, if all the votes had been counted like the Democrats wanted in 2000 Bush would have won. In in his time in Office after 9/11 there has not be a serious terrorist attack on the United States, it can be argued that the failure of Intelligence before 9/11 was down to the Clinton Administration, President Bill Clinton had eight years to solve the problem while Bush only had seven months in office. After 9/11 Bush gave freedom to Afghanistan and Iraq, the terror faced by the people has been removed, its up to these countries if they use this freedom. In the Second Term of Truman he faced the the drawn out War in Korea, the Korean War did Truman in, he had low approval ratings due to the War and Scandals. Bush in the future if Obama is weak will be seen as great, his manic bailouts seem odd for a conservative but it can be argued that he does not want to hand over a Great Depression to President Obama. It can be postulated that Truman would have more time for Bush than Bill Clinton.

US Car Bailout

Fox News: Reports that the Bush White House will not rush a bailout of the US Car Industry. Folks this is your last chance to have some effect on this madness of bailouts, if you have the chance, phone, email, telegram, text the White House to tell them not to give money the Car Industry. The new Obama Administration will just pander to the Unions, but they can be prevented from flushing your money down the toilet if Bush allows the bankrupt Car Companies to go in to Chapter 11. This would prevent the new Obama Administration from waisting your money to help the Unions. Thus send a simple message to the White House

NO TO CARS.

Goodbye Iraq!

BBC News: Reports on the last visit to Iraq by President George W. Bush as President. At the end of the day the the United States has won in Iraq, yes there will be low level attacks, Israel has to put up with low level attacks, so this is not new to the region. The economic 9/11 that the West is now facing means we have to get out of Iraq, the government of Iraq has to take over the economic and military burden of running Iraq. The new Obama Administration with Robert Gates at Defence will get the USA out of Iraq with honour. How history will treat Bush 43 will depend how his successors manage the their problems. It can be argued that Bush 43 might not be the successor to Reagan, the bailout of different sectors negates that result but he might be the successor to President Truman, not a bad category.