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Also associated with a Clinton administration: marijuana, hog-calling and jogging to McDonald's. And let us not forget "Socks"--first cat in the White House since Amy Carter's "Snookles," or whatever it was called...
LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE MAY ALSO CRIMP THE STYLE OF First Cat-elect SOCKS. Katherine Houpt, a Cornell University animal psychologist, advises Socks to look out for Rose Garden squirrels, which could have rabies. It might also be a good idea to skip those State dinners: they're full of nosy visitors who want to pick you up and scratch your head. And no matter how rough it gets, don't take off for Little Rock. It's 891 miles -- roughly 23 million kitty steps -- from your new home...
...look to Caroline and John Kennedy Jr., who were too little to be criticized, or the Ford kids, who were accidental White House tourists with sleep-over rights. Let Amy Carter serve as a cautionary tale. And get a dog: it deflects attention away from you better than a cat...
...Clinton run against? Well, the current officeholders and their policies, of course. But besides that? Curiously enough, no clear enemies emerge. This was a campaign surprisingly light on red meat. The Clinton-Gore team wasn't really targeting the business class (contrast its mild strictures with the anti-fat-cat vitriol of an earlier era). Nor was it targeting (as Reagan did so effectively) the "undeserving poor." It wasn't even stigmatizing conservatives as such...
Dziewonski and Su created the model using a technique known as seismic tomography, based on many of the same principles as CAT scans...