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Frum the right. (Working Lunch).(Interview)
David Frum, a Harvard educated lawyer, is one of the most iconoclastic and outspoken pundits in Washington. From an almost universally admired book about the culture of the 1970s to a sometimes snarky, always perceptive, daily journal for National Review Online, his writing has won fans all across the political spectrum. Between 2000 and 2002, Frum served as a speechwriter in the Bush administration. Currently, he is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His next book--the first major memoir to come out of the Bush White House--will appear in the first week of 2003. He spoke with TAE senior editors Eli Lehrer and Karina Rollins in his office at AEI.
TAE: What's you're assessment of how well President Bush is doing on the war on terror?
FRUM: He has probably fallen below the standard of perfection but we don't ask for perfection. The country has a degree of foreign policy consensus unlike anything that any living person has ever seen. Although I'm sure there will be many setbacks and disappointments along the way, I think he has brought the war to the enemy. He will successfully destroy the terror regimes and he will track down and find and kill the authors of the September 11 attacks.
TAE: You have a new book coming out in January called The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush. Can you tell us about it?
FRUM: The book is a character sketch of President Bush, told from the point of view of someone who got to know him only at the time of the election. I had not worked on his campaign, I hadn't had a connection with him beforehand, I had absolutely not expected to be working for him. I had a lot of hesitation about taking the job. So the book is a story of him, but it's also a story of how one person changed his understanding of Bush and came to feel respect for this President as the right man for this job in this time.
TAE: Do Americans have the backbone for an extended war on terror, and will they be willing to make sacrifices?
FRUM: Yes! Emphatically yes. In many ways the sacrifices and risks that are going to be demanded of them during the war on terror are much less than those demanded of them during the Cold War. President Bush ...
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