Video: Pursuing The Real George Bush

Can TV news ever capture what goes on in the White House?

If Americans have learned anything about George Bush in his l4 months as President, it is that he is more complex and calculating than expected. He is open and accessible but also secretive and, at times, deceptive. He is a voracious reader of opinion polls, yet would prefer that his face not appear on the nightly news. He seems to be a warm and genuine father but is ill at ease in any bout with self-analysis.

These apparent contradictions are often difficult for the press to reconcile. The problem is most acute for television, since Bush is almost impossible to capture...

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