President Bush has assembled a competent and experienced team to whom he is delegating important initiatives and decisions, and he and his administrative team are calmly and methodically working toward the goals laid out in the campaign.
However, the president’s policy agenda--of tax cuts, education reforms, access to health care, personal Social Security accounts, and the strengthening of our defense capabilities--will require more than a managerial approach. For the president to succeed, he will need the kind of national support that is normally achieved by transformational strategies.
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, will discuss these two distinct approaches to governing.