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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
By Vincent Rossmeier and Gabriel Winant

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:26 AM

    @libertyson

    "And G.W. Bush came as close to inheriting a peaceful and prosperous nation as any president in the last 50 years"

    I have to disagree with you on that. Clinton in 1993 inherited an economy that had been in recovery for 18 months and had, according to the NYT, Clinton was inheriting an economy that was growing at a fast pace.

    As noted above, Bush inherited the Clinton-Gore recession.

    And, of course, after Reagan's policies brought down the Soviet Union, Team Clinton's main concern in 1993 was how to spend the so-called "peace dividend."

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