21.   Bradley has always viewed running for president as an opportunity for personal growth and character development.

22.   Bush took time to recognize Yogi Berra, the former Yankee great who predated the president as a noted language mangler.

23.   But as he runs for president as a more compassionate kind of Republican, his death penalty record also offers insights into his distinct views of mercy and justice.

24.   But by becoming more directly involved, he can also better advise the president as to whether he needs to intervene.

25.   But if they do not, he said, he is ready to run for president as an independent.

26.   But in a more private moment afterward, she took the hand of the president as the two left the stage.

27.   But no senator is obliged to regard the president as having an uninhibited right to reshape federal courts by imposing a political uniformity based on his own philosophy.

28.   But Republicans portrayed the president as having sculpted the biggest tax increase in history.

29.   But perhaps not since that unabashed duffer Dwight D. Eisenhower has there been such a golfing president as Bill Clinton.

30.   But the framers were also seeking to make the president as politically independent of Congress as possible.