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...sank lower and lower in his chair, and his face lost color," Schelling recalls. "When we went out I thought we had a significant impact, but I never saw any evidence afterward...
...People have been anticipating just such an announcement after the Capital Campaign ended, and now that it's several months afterward, I think some people wondered if you were going to stay a while longer. Do you think you took your colleagues by surprise? Was that your intent...
...meeting--or at least the spin afterward--was so anodyne that it's easy to imagine that after five minutes, they ran out of things to say and were scanning the offerings on SpectraVision. Neither said he was sorry for the hatchets and sharpened screwdrivers each hurled during the primaries; the vice-presidential offer and rejection were painless; and substantive disagreements over issues like campaign-finance reform, the size of tax cuts and the experience necessary to conduct foreign policy were skipped over lightly. "You don't want one of these things to go badly," says McCain. "The goal...
...Bush kept control behind closed doors, the press conference afterward was pure McCain: unpredictable and laced with edgy humor. Though McCain endorsed Bush, the smiles were forced, and McCain's jokes occasionally misfired. Was he being serious when he agreed with a reporter that the meeting was like taking medicine? The Senator insists that he was joking, and Bush is said to believe him. The worst moment was Bush's. At an event designed to show mutual admiration, the G.O.P. nominee ducked a question about the Rev. Pat Robertson, who recently warned that McCain would be a "very dangerous" Vice...
...many street vendors approached, trying to sell me some postcards. After a week of beggars and pickpockets, I wanted to say no, but she had a kind face and offered to give me some history of the final days before the fall of Saigon. Afterward she asked me where I was from. When I said America, she stared into my eyes and said, "Welcome back." She explained that it was because of us Americans that she is able to have her small business selling cards. Freedom will prevail. BILL NEWMAN Singapore...