rtain that he had much to do with them. The Soviet Union has fallen apart, and Communism has disappeared in most of the world. George Bush takes credit, but he is the one who seems to be coddling the Chinese Communists. Walsh and Gergen write: "Bush remains uncritical of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square massacre" (p. 27). The people who watched the massacre on television and who watched the democracy movement for days before that do not agree with George Bush about how the Chinese leaders should be treated now, and the fact that Bush is treating them so well and giving them trade deals is one of the reasons they have for not liking him any more.
Walsh and Gergen talk about some of the things George Bush said he wanted to do when he ran for president in 1988, and they find that he failed to do them. The environment is important to a lot of people, and George Bush said he wanted to help the environment. He did help with a clean air bill, but he also helped rewrite wetlands rules which could allow development on 106 million acres now controlled by the federal government. He has an energy policy that ignores conservation, while most people think conservation has to be part of energy policy.
Education is another thing that Bush said he would do something about and which in fact he has done nothing. A lot of people think he does not really care about education, and the policy that he is pushing for vouchers and tax credits might destroy the public school
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