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...than with Middle America. "The President should remind himself," says presidential scholar Stephen Hess, "that the people who elected him get their hair cut, not styled, by barbers named Ed, not Cristophe, and they pay in cash, not personal-services contracts." The speed of passage of the haircut from Beltway to Burbank monologue set a new indoor record...
...shape. Instead, the White House turned the job over to a 511-member task force whose very names were kept secret. When the Administration grudgingly issued a list, the task-force members turned out to be mostly congressional assistants, academics and think-tankers little known even inside the Washington Beltway. Typically, Daniel Callahan, the nation's best-known expert on medical ethics, said, "I know the top 10 minds in the country on this issue. I've talked to them." Not only were none of them on the task force; they knew none of the people who were...
Hillary, the Clinton who has both focus and coordination already, said people had to understand what the President was trying to accomplish and the best way to do that was for him to resume trips outside the Beltway. Thus Clinton is scheduled to visit Cleveland, Chicago and New York City this week to sell his budget proposals. One of those present said Carville pointed to Clinton and said it was important that the President should not become part of the "culture of Washington" that prefers more of the same over change. Clinton has begun quoting some of Carville's latest...
While the public outside the Beltway has been included, the First Lady ran into controversy by trying to keep the task force's meetings behind closed doors. For a time, even the staff's names were secret. A running battle over the issue began when a group of doctors and industry insiders sued the White House to open the meetings, arguing that Hillary's presence as a nongovernment employee entitled them to attend as well. A federal judge ruled that some of the meetings had to be open. The Administration appealed, contending that it was only trying to keep lobbyists...
When George Bush was First Speaker, people worried that his own peculiar patterns of speech would spread beyond the Beltway. After all, the leader of the free world regularly uncorked beauties like "wouldn't be prudent" and "not gonna...