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...White House lawn with Speaker Gingrich at his side ? and chances are he won't be using his line-item veto to remove a pro-tobacco provision that Republicans sneaked in at the last minute. Clinton knows that any veto would have caused "political misery," says TIME's Jef McAllister, by undoing the delicate bipartisan balance of the hard-won budget deal. Minority leader Dick Gephardt told the White House he would try, in later legislation, to undo the provision making tobacco industry penalties tax-deductible ? when nobody's looking...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The budget negotiations were half over before they began, says TIME correspondent Jef McAllister, who notes that President Clinton was able to maneuver key Republicans into feeling vulnerable. "They felt a lot of pressure to compromise, both from the President and from the country as a whole," he says. The result is a budget that will supposedly secure a historic balanced budget by 2002. One victory for the GOP: A break on capital gains taxes...
...chemical weapons treaty, Bill Clinton got backing from an unexpected source: Bob Dole. Citing alterations in the treaty language, Dole said "there are now adequate safeguards to protect American interests." Dole's support could provide crucial political cover to Trent Lott and other wavering Senate Republicans, TIME's Jef McAllister notes. "Dole has always been closer to the internationalist wing than to the isolationists that Helms has marshaled against the treaty." While White House officials hoped that Dole's endorsement would give them the needed votes, spokesman Mike McCurry said the Administration can't yet count on the necessary...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: "Americans will forgive the President on a lot of violations, including campaign finance mistakes, if he acts like a President and actually accomplishes things that matter to them," says TIME's Jef McAllister. Betting on that assumption, President Clinton is continuing what has been a highly successful strategy of unveiling small initiatives to take the news spotlight away from campaign finance investigations. Friday's example: A call for Congress to ratify the chemical weapons accord and grant him a "fast-track" negotiating authority to expand free trade to more Latin American countries. Up next, Clinton will announce...
...violence will continue unless the U.S. takes a more active involvement, Clinton said Tuesday he is not prepared to host a Camp David-style Israeli-Palestinian summit, as Netanyahu had suggested, or to make any other dramatic moves soon. "It is a tricky problem for Clinton," says TIME's Jef McAllister. "The prestige of the American president is something that needs to be uncorked carefully. You use it up and it's gone. It would be extremely risky for Clinton to call for a high profile meeting with both sides so untrusting of each other." Even if Clinton were...