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March 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Tunisia: Journalism: World Bank: Humor: Washington Post: RPCV Al Kamen says: Some European allies were said to have been decidedly lukewarm to the president's pick for a new president of the World Bank
RPCV Al Kamen says: Some European allies were said to have been decidedly lukewarm to the president's pick for a new president of the World Bank
RPCV Al Kamen says: Some European allies were said to have been decidedly lukewarm to the president's pick for a new president of the World Bank
A President Precedent
By Al Kamen
Wednesday, March 23, 2005; Page A13
Some European allies were said to have been decidedly lukewarm to the president's pick for a new president of the World Bank. European bankers, according to a New York Times dispatch from London, "said there might well be some resentment of the [selection] in some of those nations because of his close association with [an unpopular] war."
" 'He is going to have to convince some of those countries who have been cool to the war that he is now a banker and a missionary who has their interests at heart,' a source here commented."
Wait a minute! That was a 1967 article by reporter Alvin Shuster about Lyndon B. Johnson's selection of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to run the bank. The war was, of course, Vietnam. The Euros worried that his departure would lead to escalation of the conflict.
The preliminary Euro yipping and whining over President Bush's pick for World Bank president, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, seen as a key architect of the Iraq war, apparently has subsided and everyone has, predictably, fallen in line. The only question now is, whether there'll be a movie about Iraq after his memoirs.
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