41.   Critics accused him of seeking to steal the limelight from retired Gen. Colin Powell, who is considering running for president as an independent or a Republican.

42.   DeLay said Thursday that the Constitution did not give Congress the authority to censure a president as a lesser punishment for an impeachable offense.

43.   Democrats argue that only by using the president himself as their star attraction could they draw near the Republicans in fund raising.

44.   Dick Lamm, former Colorado governor, may run for president as a third-party candidate.

45.   Dole is attracting respectable crowds, but cannot match the president as a draw.

46.   Despite that plea, Republicans were quick to criticize the president as returning to liberal, spendthrift ways.

47.   Employees were urged to remind clients that the firm had hired other former presidents as speakers.

48.   Even such an occasionally sharp critic of the president as Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., was low-key.

49.   Ever since, the Bush administration has taken great pains, at least symbolically, to portray the president as environmentally sensitive.