A few months ago Mr Cheney's death might have destabilised the young administration.
Mr. Paterson, a Democrat, has made a property tax measure one of the central policy objectives of his young administration.
Mr. Bloomberg, who was briefed on the plan yesterday morning, has made education reform a priority for his young administration.
In a 35-minute conversation with The New York Times aboard Air Force One on Friday, Mr. Obama reviewed the challenges to his young administration.
Even as President Obama refreshingly took responsibility for having "screwed up," it's not clear that he fully understands the huge forces that hit his young administration last week.
With his honeymoon seemingly over and his White House on the defensive, Mr. Obama faces what friends and foes alike call a make-or-break moment in his young administration.
A trip to Ireland in 1995 was interrupted by a call from a psychiatrist in Washington, warning that his client, a young administration staff member, was threatening to commit suicide at Dublin Castle over a breakup with her boyfriend.
President Barack Obama today made the most contentious move of his young administration with an order, overturning a ban on federal funds to foreign family planning organisations that either offer abortions or provide information or counselling about abortion.
When President Bush, in his first week in the White House, selected Mr. Powell to lead the Federal Communications Commission, he appeared on paper to be the regulator best suited to meet the deregulatory goals of the young administration.
But in attacking the problem directly by trying to cross the provincial border, Mr. Saakashvili has raised the possibility of armed conflict and put his young administration to a harsh test.
