“The day after the election, President Bush announces the surge. My job is to try to sell to a new majority in the Senate and the House that we need to do more in Iraq, not less. Still, he knows it is not forever. There is a painting and bust of a fellow Kentuckian, Senator Henry Clay, and a photograph of a Democrat, Senator Alben W. Barkley, the only other Kentuckian to lead a party in the Senate. “Alben Barkley is the only Democrat I would have even considered putting up in my office.”

Source: New York Times October 27, 2016 09:00 UTC