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...fund raising don't apply to Presidents and Vice Presidents; not that there is no case law (no "controlling legal authority," in the phrase Gore invoked seven times in 24 minutes) to proscribe his behavior. It was a loophole big enough to drive Air Force One, the Lincoln Bedroom, Johnny Chung and most of Gore's telephone logs through...
...intense money game was played by Clinton in a way that gave hospitality a bad name. The speedy turnover in the Lincoln Bedroom, the java huddles with big donors, the shared stretches on Clinton's jogging route reduced the message of the presidency to "Attention, K Mart shoppers." But they also put serious pressure on federal campaign-finance laws. Now it only remains to be determined whether the pressure reached the breaking point. Though nothing made public so far is evidence that Clinton or Vice President Al Gore asked for money in the White House, which could have been illegal...
Among most Americans, the reaction to all of this is not exactly outrage. A TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners shows that Clinton's approval rating is still a healthy 60%. Some 59% said it was inappropriate for Clinton to invite donors to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom. But only 23% think there is a "crisis" in campaign finance...
From there it was a short trip to the Lincoln Bedroom. The funny thing, of course, is that Lincoln never slept there. That room served as his study. And because of a renovation ordered by Harry Truman that demolished the interior of the White House, even the walls are 20th century. The mattress is no treat; the furniture is lugubrious Victorian; and for good measure the place is supposed to be haunted. Winston Churchill is said to have sighted Lincoln's ghost. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reported an ectoplasm in a stovepipe hat. Bill Clinton thought he saw some...
...other, in nearly identical words: "I know his type," or "I knew guys like him back home." And that's partly because they walked different paths even before they left their small hometowns. Virginia Clinton doted on her son so much that she turned over the master bedroom to him. Iona Lott, however, recalls that "people used to say an only child would be spoiled and selfish. And I was determined he wouldn't be that way." She made Trent share everything, including the pony she got him before he was 10, when the family still lacked an indoor toilet...