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...bombing was when Clinton really became the President. He was steeled by the need to stand up to the venomous elements of hatred in the country that erupted there. This drove home to him the seriousness, the stakes of this business that we're in. It changed him inside. Afterward, he was more steady, rooted, surefooted in his understanding of where the American people are. Yes, he made personal mistakes, but those in some way have been a sideshow to the main current of his public leadership, and the approval ratings show that...
...White House dinner, just about two weeks after that first Mideast handshake with Arafat and Rabin. Afterward, 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...
...county fairs and college campuses, just plain outworking her opponent. And as much as yuppie women may have been skeptical of Hillary's motives, upstate women of a certain age greeted her like Oprah, an avatar of spiritual renewal touching down in Poughkeepsie. They turned out for her, stayed afterward, lined up for autographs. Her first victory lap began upstate in Albany, Rochester and Syracuse...
...exploit Clinton's weakness in the suburbs and among Jews. He flubbed the first debate when he invaded her personal space, shouting at her to sign a paper forswearing soft money. She would eventually agree, and he was never able to get much juice out of the Lincoln Bedroom afterward. In the final days of the campaign, Lazio accused Clinton of supporting terrorism because she had accepted a donation from an Arab American who had praised Hizballah. Clinton returned the money, no one believed she was soft on bin Laden, and the charge backfired...
Warren Christopher and James Baker III call a joint press conference asking for both sides to "chill." But their appearance takes a sudden rancorous turn when Baker jests with reporters afterward, "With all due respect, it was Ronald Reagan's election that got our hostages out of Teheran, not some elegantly tailored twerp L.A. lawyer...