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      Washington Post Curates the Memory of George Shultz

      Washington Post Curates the Memory of George Shultz

      By exclusion or distortion, establishment obituaries rewrite history to make the official heroes fit for adoration.

      Julie Hollar
      Feb 09, 2021

      George Shultz, a prominent cabinet member of both the Nixon and Reagan administrations, holding posts at State, Treasury, Labor and the Office of Management and Budget, died over the weekend at age 100. His death prompted no fewer than three fawning tributes in the Washington Post, in addition to the paper's official obituary.

      Former George W. Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who considered Shultz both a mentor and friend, was given column space at the Post (2/7/21) to wax poetic about how Shultz "never lost sight of the centrality of freedom to the human experience and to human dignity," and concluded that "we are all so much better for having been a part of the consequential life that he lived."

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      America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President

      As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of arrest on a torture complaint, my first thought was -- how humiliating, not only for Bush but, by extension, for all Americans.

      Ray Mcgovern
      Feb 08, 2011

      As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of arrest on a torture complaint, my first thought was -- how humiliating, not only for Bush but, by extension, for all Americans.

      However, those who might have expected Bush to be down in the mouth and sulk about the embarrassment were disabused of that notion as the TV cameras caught him and Condoleezza Rice -- his former national security adviser and Secretary of State -- in seats of honor at Sunday's Super Bowl in Dallas.

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      Pope Versus President

      Pope Versus President

      Heather Wokusch
      Oct 07, 2007

      The Vatican's recent snub of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is only the latest salvo in the battle between Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush. This tug of war has profound implications for both U.S. foreign policy and the critical Catholic vote in 2008's presidential race.

      Overlapping Agendas

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