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...firms to bid for contracts and prepare to conduct business once the embargo was over. The most important step came in July, when Clinton gave the green light for international lending institutions to begin pumping money into Vietnam's dilapidated economy. But for Clinton, vulnerability on the issue of draft dodging made it impossible for him to act without the support of Congress. With that in mind, National Security Adviser Tony Lake made a trip up to Capitol Hill last fall to pay a call on John Kerry, Massachusetts' highly decorated Vietnam veteran. The President, Lake explained, was prepared...
...Union speech. Tired of those harrowing last-minute cut-and-paste sessions that have marked nearly all his major addresses, Clinton's aides met with the President before Christmas to discuss a couple of broad themes for the occasion, "renewal" and "continuity." Three weeks later, they delivered a first draft in a fax to Clinton in Europe. With a week to go, speechwriters David Dreyer and Bob Boorstin met with Clinton on Air Force One to rework weak spots. The new discipline seemed to be working. "This will be a shorter, more focused speech," an official boasted...
...even more isolated than the White House. And he will always stay up late, even if he has to take an afternoon nap to do so. Last Tuesday, as Clinton came downstairs from the private residence, dressed and ready for his speech, aides noticed that the final draft was wrapped inside a crossword puzzle from the morning paper. Clutching both, he stepped into the waiting limousine. One official turned to another and remarked, "He's going to work on the puzzle during the applause...
...Clinton wasn't going to be any clearer. He didn't break American laws, he said, when the pot-smoking charges flew -- a dodge that held for a nanosecond, until it was revealed that Clinton's noninhaling had taken place in England. And then there was the draft...
...Clinton administration broached the topic ever-so-cautiously. That left ample opportunity for Colin Powell, the darling of the American public whose position on gays in the military was well known, to sway people to his side of the argument. A four-star general versus a draft dodger? No contest...