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...told Esquire magazine that the G.O.P. Congress still owes the country an apology for the spectacle of impeachment. "What's personal he takes responsibility for. What's political, he doesn't" is how one friend puts it. He still complains that as the newly elected President, he didn't get a single Republican vote for his first budget back in 1993, and he regularly rails against Whitewater and other investigations into his Administration as "bogus" and fraudulent. Earlier this year he declared, "A whole bunch of this stuff was just garbage, and we had totally innocent people prosecuted." Indeed, apart...
...humanitarian and wrote more than two dozen books." The Clinton Center, which will offer a master's degree in public service through the University of Arkansas, will wrestle not only with international issues but also with racial reconciliation, the information revolution and economic development. Clinton has vowed not to get in the way of his successors, as Teddy Roosevelt and, to a degree, Carter did. Still, his enormous popularity with foreign leaders and his formidable fund-raising skills almost guarantee that he will be called upon by either his country or his party. Brinkley predicts, "We're going...
...get to know most presidential candidates as they do common things--fly commercial, eat the complimentary breakfast buffet, ride in the elevator--in pursuit of an uncommon goal. But Gore is the Vice President and thus was blocked by armed guards and accessible by invitation only. When you did get to him, he could be a conundrum. Once, as I interviewed him in a hotel about his eldest daughter Karenna, Gore started by offering me a soda. I'm glad I took it--it was the only refreshing thing in that dry, unrevealing, tense half-hour, which was odd since...
There is a story that Woodrow Wilson was working on neutrality papers in the Oval Office when he heard what he thought was a housefly and jumped up to get a swatter. Wilson then looked out the window and saw a biplane zooming down on the White House, with Lincoln Beachey perched at the controls. Beachey, then considered the best pilot in America, buzzed the White House again and again and flew stunts around the Washington Monument, to the awe of Wilson. Today the airspace above the White House is designated P-56 by the FAA--the P standing...
...Republic has faced succession crises before--and the Star-Spangled Banner yet waves. There is no need to get too excited over this...