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\nof yesterday’s sad little press gathering in the East Room of the White House,
\nwhere our Fearless Maximum Leader was seen on television doing his usual,
\nstumbling tap dance. Shales began:<\/P>
\n“When I say something, I mean it,” George W. Bush said decisively near the
\nend of last night’s prime-time presidential news conference. Nobody called out, “When will you
\nsay something?” — the White House press corps is too mannerly for that — but some reporters,
\nand some viewers, must have been thinking it.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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