Reeves is a shrewd and conversational observer of the power players in contemporary American life.
Since young officers become veterans, that is a big plus for the Republican Party in general and George W. Bush in particular. And, of course, military-minded folk have other issues in mind, too, when they vote. The president's chosen successor did not have to practice. He enlisted in the Army in 1970 and volunteered to go to Vietnam, making him possibly the only Harvard graduate to do that during that lousy war. But he put more of himself out there than did George W. Bush, who learned to fly jets as a National Guard lieutenant sleeping in his own bed almost every night.