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... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

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William Safire
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 17
Died: 2009
Died: September 27
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William Lewis Safire
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