21.   But future presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton would adopt many of his themes, including welfare reform.

22.   But he never regained his previous national standing as an inevitable future president.

23.   But he said the future president would have to come up with a plan to deal with the economic crisis.

24.   But many of the laws Congress has passed since were intended to convey such authority to future presidents.

25.   But somebody has to be a future president if Russia is going to be a democracy.

26.   But that future president happily seized on his youthfulness as an asset.

27.   But the last thing this country needs is to make it easier for future presidents to recreate even more on the job.

28.   But we can hope future presidents will restore the traditions of answering and explicating that will help them think more deeply and govern more effectively.

29.   But White House officials say a future president would face political constraints against reducing protections on federal lands.

30.   By establishing that principle, it would invite such pressures on every future president who might, for whatever reason, fall into a period of unpopularity. . . .