For the record.

"Last month she said she'd marry me, but now I'm being challenged in the primaries."

* In CBS News poll, President Bush earns 60 percent approval rating, up from 49 percent in November... . In CNN/USA Today poll, 62 percent say it was worth going to war in Iraq... . Bush on Libya's decision to disarm nuclear program: "Libya has begun the process of rejoining the community of nations... . Our understanding with Libya came about through quiet diplomacy. It is a result, however, of policies and principles declared to all." ... State Department plans to build its largest diplomatic mission in Baghdad, with staff of 3,000 people. Says Colin Powell in Washington Post: "As I build up that large embassy, I've got to also generate more international support, U.N. presence--get the U.N. back in there in force." ... In USA Today/CNN poll, Bush is most admired man and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) is most admired woman... . Brian M. Riedl of Heritage Foundation, in New York Times: "President Bush is not focusing on his fiscal conservative base right now. He's trying to position himself in between conservatives in Congress and the Democratic party. It may be good politics, but it's bad policy, a lost opportunity to get runaway government spending under control."

* Howard Dean on Bush presidency: "not only a failure, but the most dangerous administration in my lifetime." ... More Dean, in Concord Monitor: "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials." ... Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.): "Democrats need to offer something stronger than what George Bush is offering. We need to offer something stronger than Howard Dean's comment that America is not safer with Saddam Hussein behind bars." ... Dean says Democrats should stop criticizing him, in New York Times: "If we had strong leadership in the Democratic party, they would be calling those other candidates and saying, 'Hey look, somebody's going to have to win here.'" ... As Dean promises to raise minimum wage to $7 per hour (from $5.15), Rep. Dick Gephardt (D., Mo.) proposes "international minimum wage." ... Gephardt also says federal contractors should hire more disabled people... . "He's not dumb," says Gephardt of Bush, in Washington Post, "but he is not informed and he's not experienced and he hasn't surrounded himself with the right people to give him the information and the experience that he doesn't have. And he worries me." ... Kerry raises mere $2 million in fourth quarter of 2003... . Ralph Nader says he won't run for president on Green party ticket... . Dean, in Boston Globe: "Dealing with race is ...