Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Clinton took us out to the terrace to show us where the handshake had been. Then he took us into the Oval Office, showing us John Kennedy's desk and all. You had the sense that this was a guy who loved being President, and not merely for the power of it. It was also for the engagement with the ideas of it, with the possibilities. Then I saw him years later, at a fund raiser right in the middle of the Monica thing, and there was a distance from that exuberance I had seen in the Oval Office...
...idea of a "President's palace" quite naturally captured the expansive mind of transplanted Frenchman Pierre L'Enfant, who had grown to manhood at Versailles, the most magnificent monument to power and wealth--and self-indulgence--in Europe. In the fall of 1791, the new Federal City designed with his regal touch would be named Washington...
...people could envision the authority and symbolism that would come to inhabit the White House in the next 200 years. Today it is the world's most important stage, where power is brokered and crises confronted, where national policies are born and tendered, where a national spirit is nurtured. It is the production studio for a crucial device for governing--the media. And it remains the coveted stop for almost every other power holder in the world...
...43rd President is being diminished. Even before the Gore campaign threatened to settle this election in court and the Bush team went after an injunction against hand-counting votes, it was obvious that the winner would face profound questions of illegitimacy and have a weak grip on presidential power--which is, after all, merely on loan from the voters...
...becomes a battle becomes a war. The first bullet flew on the day after the election when Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, a Democrat with a gift for attacking with a mild half-smile, announced that if the chamber ended up in a 50-50 split, he would demand "power sharing"--a coalition arrangement in which the two parties would negotiate an equal sharing of power and perks...