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...start of his second term in 1997, recounts speechwriter Michael Waldman in his new book, POTUS Speaks. Controlling the story line, therefore, is at the top of Clinton's agenda. The pursuit has been manic and ambitious in the past months: the China trade bill, the Camp David summit, eight foreign trips to 14 countries, a year-end legislative showdown with Congress, strategizing his wife's senatorial campaign, planning a historic visit to Vietnam. Says Douglas Brinkley, a historian and biographer of Jimmy Carter: "He's treating every day like it's his last day in a Herculean struggle with...
...song proved especially difficult, and rather controversial. Must an album start with an upbeat number? Should it be the catchiest tune? The strongest? As one industry saying goes, the average public lends you six seconds of attention, and record executives give half of that. This led to a band summit meeting concerning the goal of sequencing. Was it solely for "hooking" an audience? Should it be more for the flow of the album? One member suggested, as a compromise, that we begin with the slowest ballad we recorded, which would, as he put it, successfully "compromise the album." The idea...
...then he topped it all off with a bit of out-of-the-box statesmanship offer: A peace summit, so that both candidates might "improve the tone of our dialogue in America...
...peace summit, Bush played tough guy and politely put off any meeting until after the result. Keep it simple. Keep it on schedule. And keep it the way it is - they won't even ask for a recount in Iowa. It's a truly conservative angle...
...Gore has made his move. In a hastily arranged - and hastily delivered - 6:45 p.m. press conference from his residence, the vice president grabbed every bit of high ground he could from the Republicans, offering not only an endgame but a peace summit, and all in time to get a live feed on all three network newscasts and lead every newspaper in the country come morning...