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...Fast food was part of Clinton's bad old image: the burger-munching, sax-playing juvenile-in-chief. That Clinton had gradually given way to a grayer and graver President, with an optimism that seemed more deeply felt. Penn and Baer were aghast that Clinton might take a step backward. Sperling thought this message business was getting just a bit out of hand...
When there were no hands left to shake along the rope line, Clinton glad-handed the police and anyone else he could find, almost reeling, staggering backward, to find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
Since many of the senior faculty entered academia when typewriters were still standard, "the very fact that the delete button goes backward and erases things you have typed--that's already a quantum leap for someone from my generation," Nagy says. "What a gift...
...once again win a solid mandate. Although the party is currently in the lead, polls predict that it will fall short of a majority, raising the specter of further coalition rule for the country. Whoever forms the government will come under pressure to restructure everything from Japan's backward social-welfare system to its hesitant defense role in the face of challenges from the rest of Asia...
When Kennedy arrived by plane, David Sayre brought him into the airport office, where the two women waited. Wise says, "TV doesn't do him justice." He was wearing jeans and sneakers and a baseball cap turned backward. "He was as nice a gentleman as you would want to meet," said Wise. (Mary Jo Ferguson paid for the license...