"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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From The Washington Post, 2/20/04:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56170-2004Feb19.html

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, February 20, 2004; Page A04


Just as questions appeared to be dying down about his service in the
National Guard, President Bush faced a third controversy yesterday
over claims in an annual economic report that usually receives little
attention.

The new questions concern whether the recession began on Bush's watch
or before he took office.

Bush has asserted in speeches that he inherited the recession, and the
report adopts that view.

The charts and analyses in the 412-page "Economic Report of the
President," issued last week, put the "start of the recession" in the
fourth quarter of 2000 -- under President Bill Clinton.

But the National Bureau of Economic Research, which dates business
cycles, has said the recession lasted eight months beginning in March
2001 -- two months after Bush's inauguration.


Well that settles that.

Harry

for once, you are right.