He shocked them even more in 1969 by accepting a job in the Nixon administration.

ECONOMIST: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is already making clear that it is incapable of accepting this basic truth.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Fatah��s message

Bush would have had no trouble finding a reporter to extol his prudence in accepting defeat in Iraq if he had decided not to buck the media and indeed his own administration in order to win in Iraq and secure his place in history.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Grimmacing to victory, grinning to defeat