Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...about being a tax-and-spend party because we delivered just the opposite. We delivered economic growth. He delivered on law enforcement when the American people used to say Democrats were soft on crime. He hasn't abandoned the core Democratic belief that we should give people an opportunity. Even on defense, he's shown you don't have to have been in the military to be a good Commander in Chief...
Friends and aides reject the notion that Clinton is primarily on a mission for atonement and redemption. Even the long-planned trip to Vietnam, the first ever by a U.S. President to the unified country and the capstone of his steady and little-noticed effort to normalize relations, has less to do with personal redemption than generational healing, say friends. "He feels the baby boomers never quite closed the circle, and he can do that," says one. Clinton himself, asked if he's somehow using his frenetic schedule to try to wash away his mistakes, answers both...
Friends say, even absent scandal, his eighth year was never going to be a casual victory stroll. The guy loves being President, they say. "He was always going to do lots of Democratic fund raisers and push an aggressive legislative agenda, and he's always said that after Hillary had supported his career all these years, it was going to be her turn," says a former staff member. "Would he have done so many money events without Monica? Is he somehow working extra hard for Hillary? Who knows...
...House." A few years after its completion, the no-nonsense Americans were calling it as they saw it--the White House. Still, George Washington, with a lingering bit of the kingly itch, made sure the house would be grand enough for the Chief Executive of the new Republic. Even the ascetic New Englander John Adams, the new nation's second President and the first in residence at the White House, wanted a touch of majesty. "Neither dignity, nor authority," he wrote, "can be supported in human minds...without a splendor and majesty, in some degree proportioned to them." Big country...
Before November 1800, however, even though work was under way on the Capitol, there was yet little sense of a Federal City. The only evidence of habitation was about 600 modest houses strewn across the marshy but beautiful landscape, which had inspired L'Enfant as he worked at his drawing board in a dim room in Suter's Fountain Inn in Georgetown. The unlikely figure of Adams, embodying the presidency, would bring the spark of life to the new city simply by taking up residence in the house. And though the President's House still stood mostly silent and dark...