Bush's Hard Sell
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He should be playing offense at the State of the Union. Instead, Bush
faces fire from his troops on Social Security
By Richard Wolffe, Tamara Lipper and Holly Bailey
Newsweek
Updated: 12:16 p.m. ET Jan. 30, 2005
Just five days before delivering the first State of the Union of his
new term, President Bush dispatched his senior aides to ask his party
for some unusual advice about the landmark address: what should he say
about Social Security? At a party retreat in the Greenbrier hotel in
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.-an exclusive resort that once served as
the Capitol's secret nuclear bunker-Bush's advisers were still
wrestling late last week with the language of the speech. The president
wanted to flesh out his plans to overhaul Social Security, but how much
should he say about specifics such as personal accounts or the cost of
it all? For several days, GOP leaders had pressed the president to do a
better job of selling his ideas to a skeptical public.
Richard Wolffe
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Holly Bailey
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Tamara Lipper
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