Time To Make Room For Daddy: To succeed abroad, George W. Bush needs to be less Reaganite and more, well, Bush-like.(World View)(International)(Brief Article)

Most politicians learn their craft not from abstract theories but from history. Usually their own history. As a young man, Ronald Reagan admired Franklin Roosevelt's infectious optimism and developed his own sunny style. Lyndon Johnson learned what he called the "political facts of life" by watching the Texas Legislature at work. As vice president, Richard Nixon closely studied his boss, Dwight Eisenhower. George W. Bush is no exception to this pattern. The president greatly admires his father. Through much of his life, he has quite literally followed in his footsteps: Andover, Yale, Skull and Bones, Texas, the oil business and, finally, politics. His political instincts were shaped watching, at close quarters, his father's presidency. And the central lesson he seems to have taken from it is, Don't do what Daddy did.…