Word: baer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morris: A group of aides, including Don Baer, David Shipley, Bill Curry and Mark Penn, sat around a big computer screen with Michael Waldman at the keyboard. I would give the speech as it came to my mind, and people would pounce on it and edit it as we went along. The President was distracted at the end because he was on the train trip, but I talked to him every morning by phone. The basic ideas were his. The speech he gave was almost word for word the one we drafted...
...Clinton establishment--making the weekly commute from his rural Connecticut home, conducting business out of a suite at the elegant Jefferson Hotel--Morris has an insider's ability to push his agenda. His allies are the First Lady, Vice President Al Gore, press secretary Mike McCurry, communications director Don Baer, policy adviser Bruce Reed and presidential counselor Bill Curry. But his closest confidant is the President himself, for whom he prepares exclusive briefing books that sometimes critique Clinton's other advisers. Some aides say Morris sees the Executive Branch as his playground, and anyone who disagrees with...
...uproar was instant and predictable. Crime is on everyone's mind, especially in an election year. The Republicans instantly viewed Baer, who was appointed by Bill Clinton two years ago, as a good candidate for infamy. In the skilled hands of the G.O.P.'s attack dogs, Baer would become this year's Willie Horton, the killer whose parole came back to haunt Michael Dukakis in 1988. "Impeach him!" screamed Bob Dole, whose refusal to take even a tiny step toward initiating that severe sanction confirmed that his call was nothing more than a political stunt. But it was a potentially...
...never know how the game would have ended. Baer has proved that he can be both wrong and arrogant, but he is obviously not stupid. On April 1, he helped the man who appointed him by reversing his ruling, which left the President free to climb back onto the moral high ground. "It's important not to get into the business of characterizing judges based on one decision they make," Clinton said almost immediately after Baer fell on his gavel. Dole, too, accommodated the changed landscape with stunning speed. "I don't suggest we ought to be able to pressure...
...entire episode is a blot on both candidates. One can safely speculate that McCurry's threat caused Baer to see the case in a different light. Clinton interfered with the process as surely as if he had flown to New York to demonstrate against the judge's original decision. Dole's post-reversal words appear equally hypocritical. When the leader of the Senate, the body with the power to remove judges, calls for a jurist's impeachment, that's pressure...