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The Post mentions a letter of Lincolnesque proportions displayed at the library that Bush wrote to his children during the run-up to Desert Storm.
Such humor or whimsy tends, in Johnson's work at any rate, to be of a fairly cynical turn--in keeping both with his general opinionatedness and with his specific feelings of demoralization while compiling the dictionary in the run-up to its publication in 1755.
John McCain: The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" reports that he will publish his memoirs in the presidential run-up year of 1999, and that an editor who bid on the book says the excerpt he saw brought tears to his eyes.
Bloomberg, for instance, blithely attributed the run-up to "increased enthusiasm for genetic information companies and for incorporating genomic research into drug development."
The LAT breaks the story that former senior White House aide Harold Ickes has this week told federal investigators that he was in the same room at the White House with President Clinton when Clinton made telephone fund pitches to several Democratic contributors during the run-up to the 1994 elections.