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...such as sticking with his centrist economic program rather than shifting to a more traditionally liberal appeal, and also deserves blame for blunders such as rejecting his aides' advice to call a let-it-all-hang-out press conference to defuse the issue of how he escaped the Vietnam draft. Clinton had many chances to blow it all, and came close to doing so at least twice: during the New Hampshire primary campaign, when he dropped 13 points in four days, to the edge of extinction; and in June, when he had the Democratic nomination locked up but was running...
What Clinton did not accomplish, however, was to put the draft issue to rest. His statements in New Hampshire were the first of a long series of incomplete and sometimes conflicting remarks that were to continue piecemeal throughout the campaign. In April aides urged him to call a press conference at which he would answer questions until reporters had nothing left to ask; he refused, in what now appears to have been a major blunder. Clinton did eventually develop a fairly effective answer of sorts: right through the fall debates with Bush and Perot, he has argued that voters should...
...management negotiators can sometimes take hours to try to draft half a sentence," Jaeger said. "At some times it seems to be complete paralysis of the management team...
Virginia L. MacKay-Smith '78, special assistant to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, said the report will detail the board's procedures and establish precedents for meting out discipline. The Ad Board will review the current draft of the report on Tuesday...
...draft report documents a list of infractions with corresponding punishments, MacKay-Smith said. She also said it contains hypothetical cases and examples of punishment...