Charles Whitman was his name.

As Walt Whitman once said, he said, Oh, I would stake all for you.

I was also inspired by Walt Whitman, who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him.

President George W. Bush sided with his vice president, Dick Cheney, in denying that a global warming problem even exists (his treasury secretary, Paul O Neill, and his administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Whitman, disagreed). This has probably cost the world a decade of wasted time in developing a policy to deal with the problem, particularly given that intentional inaction is likely to continue until Bush s term is finished.