Fortunately, men like President Bush and Vice President Cheney, while certainly partisan, have not lost their own sense of what is important as both were very gracious in their words about this administration and the success they have experienced in this matter.

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The most consistent longer-term pattern I have ever seen is that since at least 1918 the stock market has experienced a substantial rally from the low in the 2nd year of every presidential administration to the high in the following year.

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Whatever the good intentions of the organizers, the meeting will obviously be used by the administration to claim that its policy was arrived at in consultation with current and former government officials experienced in terrorism cases and national security issues.

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