The Nation: Forget Politics

George Bush, 52, former Texas oil operator, Congressman, Republican national chairman and U.S. envoy to Peking who in 1975 became CIA director:

I leave the job with a sense of unfulfillment. I've been dealing with an organization that's so much better than the public perception of it that one of my frustrations has been my inability totally to get across to people how good it is. This agency has undergone a lot of changes. I'm convinced that we're living within the [presidential] guidelines and within the law, within the spirit of the times and...

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