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Bush's approval challenges Clinton's
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NEW US President George W Bush enjoys as high approval ratings as President Bill Clinton in his first month in office, a new opinion poll shows.
The survey by Newsweek magazine showed 52 per cent of Americans approve how Bush handled his job in his first three weeks in office.
Clinton had a 51-percent approval rating at the same point of his presidency, the magazine said in its issue due on news stands today.
However, Bush's approval rating is lower than his father's, fomer president George Bush's, who polled 63 per cent early in his term.
And a whopping 72 per cent of Americans approved of John F Kennedy's performance after his first three weeks in office according to Newsweek.
The survey showed 73 per cent of Americans approved of Bush's education proposals, while 67 per cent backed his plan for a 1.6-trillion-dollar across-the-board tax cut.
Another 60 per cent supported the idea of deploying a national missile defence system, but by a margin of 48 to 43 per cent the respondents opposed his plan to drill for oil in an Arctic wildlife refuge in Alaska, according to the poll.
The survey of 1,000 adults on Thursday and Friday had a margin of error of plus of minus three per cent.(SD-Agencies)
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