For George Bush, abortion is the issue from hell. "You know how he deals with it," Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater told me shortly before he died last March. "He doesn't. You mention abortion to the President and he stares at the floor, fiddles with his glasses, paces around the room, trots out some old story to change the subject. Those who need to talk to him about it check his mood closely. If he's testy, you postpone the discussion -- and since there's no surer way to make him testy than to mention abortion, most often those discussions never...
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