21.   But stocks have performed dismally, and a presidential commission just concluded that benefit cuts may be necessary to avoid insolvency.

22.   Clinton used a presidential commission to forge a consensus on the proposals.

23.   Elaine Donnelly, a Detroit-based military readiness expert who served on a presidential commission concerning women in the military, agrees.

24.   First a presidential commission demanded swifter action to explain the ailments, then the Pentagon dumped the controversial chief of its team investigating the illnesses.

25.   He also served as co-chairman of a presidential commission on the future of information technology.

26.   He has assisted a presidential commission grappling with the definition of death, as well as a federal agency studying how best to allocate livers for transplant patients.

27.   He spent a night in the Lincoln bedroom, flew aboard Air Force One, and recently was appointed to a presidential commission on health care.

28.   He has set up a presidential commission on reforming Social Security.

29.   He was also a member of several presidential commissions.

30.   He would, I surmise, be enthusiastic about current calls for a bipartisan presidential commission on race.