Word: endingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...This was when it became totally clear that Clinton had sent a crook over to supervise the Justice Department, who was also an old Arkansas hand. It was illuminating about the whole series of corner cuttings and subversions of the justice process that went on from there to the end of the Administration. We always had suspicions that Clinton was corrupt, but I have to say I was surprised by the extent, or the brazenness, of it. And I suspect that as history unfolds, we'll learn even more of the dirty linen...
...hadn't had the words to explain it. But the bombing speech was a moment where, out of the ashes of sorrow and horror, one is reminded of the transcendent political good. Clinton changed the political landscape in a way that makes him the major political figure at the end of the 20th century. And the Oklahoma City speech is where that was most clearly crystallized, not just intellectually but also spiritually. --Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington
...speechwriter Michael Waldman in his new book, POTUS Speaks. Controlling the story line, therefore, is at the top of Clinton's agenda. The pursuit has been manic and ambitious in the past months: the China trade bill, the Camp David summit, eight foreign trips to 14 countries, a year-end legislative showdown with Congress, strategizing his wife's senatorial campaign, planning a historic visit to Vietnam. Says Douglas Brinkley, a historian and biographer of Jimmy Carter: "He's treating every day like it's his last day in a Herculean struggle with history, to prove...
...floundering! He's as puzzled as he is perplexed!" Then there was Greg Simon, the traveling policy adviser, who spent the final two months on the trail providing the press with a daily song. "Hello press pool my old friend./The long campaign week's at an end," he sang at the end of Gore's work-around-the-clock Labor Day trek, to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence. "We've been assaulted by a wet tarmac./We ate our way through a cheese-steak attack..." A welcome relief from the weighty world of lockboxes...
...popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from the actual text. Suddenly, a throwaway line got too much fancy sauce, making him sound as if he were declaring armistice at the end of a science-fiction movie: "The human being and the fish can coexist peacefully...