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Which Event Most Damaged Bush Presidency?

We're now just three weeks away from George W. Bush's last day in office, and the sparing over his legacy has heated up a few degrees. In separate interviews with Vanity Fair magazine, former Bush aides Matthew Dowd and Dan Bartlett concur about the "tipping point" responsible for turning the American public against their former boss. The event? Hurricane Katrina and the Bush government's ham-fisted response. Here's Dowd:"The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't ...

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