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Former President Bush When George Bush left the presidency on January 20th, many Americans were keen to turn the page. They
Former President Bush When George Bush left the presidency on January 20th, many Americans were keen to turn the page. They
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2013-06-05
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Former President Bush
When George Bush left the presidency on January 20th, many Americans were keen to turn the page. They have warmly welcomed a new cast of characters, from Barack and Michelle down to Bo the Portuguese water dog. But some members of the Bush crew are much in the news. Karl Rove, an influential adviser, is penning weekly editorials and has been scrapping with Joe Biden, the vice president. Dick Cheney has been on television growling about Mr. Obama’s approach to national security. In Spain, a court is deciding whether Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney-general, and five other administration officials can be accused of torture.
Mr. Bush himself has mostly kept a low profile since returning to Texas. He and Laura settled into their new house, in a select part of Dallas. He threw the first ball at a Texas Rangers baseball game and visited a hardware shop. He has been jogging and riding his bicycle. He has given one speech, in Canada, at which he declined to criticize the new president. "He deserves my silence," said Mr. Bush.
But Mr. Bush will not be silent for ever. He has started to write his memoirs, which will skip the usual format and be organized around a series of 12 momentous decisions. The format makes sense, given Mr. Bush’s view of history and his role in it. "I’m the decider," he said in 2006, defending his decision to keep Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary. It was one of his least popular decisions, and Mr. Bush’s many critics thought it was a bull-headed thing to say. But perhaps it was simply an existential comment. The president is the decider. There is no getting round that.
The "decider" idea will extend to the George W. Bush Presidential Centre, to be housed at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The centre will include a policy institute as well as the usual library and museum. On April 14th Mr. Bush gathered about 20 of his old employees in Dallas, including the former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and a former speechwriter, Michael Gerson, to work out strategy.
The policy institute will be unashamedly ideological. The museum, like the memoirs, will be organized around a series of decisions. The list has not been finalized, though some are obvious choices, such as the decisions to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Foundation, thinks that Mr. Bush’s 2007 decision to pursue immigration reform should make the cut. The effort failed in the Senate, but failure is part of any human story. That goes for presidents, too. "Sometimes they succeed, and sometimes they don’t, but the journey continues," says Mr. Langdale.
It can be inferred from the opening paragraph that______.
选项
A、the Obama administration takes on some members of the Bush crew
B、some members of the Bush crew are involved in negative publicity
C、Obama’s approach to national security is proved by Cheney to be a failure
D、George Bush is not popular with Americans as a president at all
答案
B
解析
事实细节题,考查是非细节。文中第一段提到布什班底某些成员正因为虐囚事件而接受法庭调查,这是一起负面的公共事件,B项正确。A项“奥巴马政府沿用了一些布什政府的成员”与文中a new cast of的说法不符;C项过于绝对,切尼只是公开指责奥巴马的国家安全策略,但并未证实这是个错误;D项曲解,文中并未提到美国民众完全否定布什政府。
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