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...Pentecostals for their emotionalism, but Clinton returned every year, sometimes with his saxophone, and his ties grew more solid in the weeks after his 1980 defeat when two Pentecostal ministers sought him out at the Governor's mansion to offer love, comfort and prayer. Clinton's childhood friend Carolyn Staley recalls bumping into Clinton at a Little Rock shopping center around 1986 and being asked inside the Governor's Lincoln Continental to listen to a taped rendition of In the Presence of Jehovah by a Pentecostal singer. "He was spellbound. He was carried away with it," she says...
...devotional. He has said that in recent years, he and Hillary, a devout Methodist who carried Scriptures on the campaign trail, have had increasingly long conversations about how to live an honorable life and the nature of life after death. On the day after Christmas, at a gathering in Staley's home of Little Rock preachers, Clinton let on that he harbored some pastoral ambitions in the Oval Office. One of the guests handed him a plaque with the verses from Psalms describing how God presented David to his people as their shepherd and "David cared for them with...
...counselor to the state's three most prominent -- and sometimes rival -- political egos: Clinton, Senator Pryor and Senator Dale Bumpers. He is their "conscience," they say, and their walking institutional memory. "Bill looks up and sees Bruce in the room and feels rooted," says Clinton's longtime friend Carolyn Staley. That is largely because the President-elect knows that Lindsey will never change: that he will always wear khaki pants and a navy blazer, that he will always have the latest political biography on his shelf, that he can sing along to Heartbreak Hotel and play hearts with Clinton until...
...attorney. Chelsea, whom she initially shielded from publicity, was gradually incorporated into the family's public picture postcard. The lifelong friends who swear she is the first person they would call from the police station, and not because she is a lawyer, became available for interviews. When Carolyn Staley, Bill Clinton's childhood friend, had a miscarriage, Hillary, who had had her own troubles with pregnancy, was the one who gave her comfort. Says , Parenthood star Mary Steenburgen, a longtime friend: "She's utterly there...
...there is no obvious candidate for the job besides Hillary. The testimony of campaign insiders highlights Clinton's need for a tough staff chief and indicates clearly why Hillary is best positioned for the role. "Hillary is quicker to clarify and make decisions than he is," says Carolyn Staley, one of the Clintons' oldest friends. "He'll maybe ((let)) things drag or wait for someone else to do them. ((Hillary's)) very organized. She's very thorough on follow-up. Bill relies on the staff to keep him organized." Betsey Wright, who served as Clinton's gubernatorial chief of staff...