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...taxes, has been getting the VIP treatment: he met with Clinton on Saturday, with David Gergen on Sunday, spoke with chief of staff Mack McLarty on Monday, and even received a prized visit from Janet Reno on Tuesday. Two days later, he had lunch with Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Boren seems to be undergoing something of a personal crisis over the vote, talking at length to nearly everyone and acknowledging, "This isn't fun for me. Everyone is very cordial to my face, then I hear they say things about me behind my back...
...signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher; and his Cabinet contains more millionaires per capita than either Reagan's or Bush...
...public and private that have blown large holes in the listing hulk of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's economic package. Moynihan is not a conventional party leader. The Hill's loyal opposition has whispered that he is "chairman by fluke." Even Democrats were stunned when former committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen accepted the job as Secretary of the Treasury, which moved Moynihan to the mountaintop, an unproven leader. In fact, Moynihan is the Senate's most eccentric, brilliant and fearless purveyor of uncomfortable truth. He has probably shaped as much national social and economic policy in his 32 years in Washington...
...others there -- Senate majority leader George Mitchell, Budget Director Leon Panetta and Bentsen -- said little. "Mr. President," intoned Moynihan in that professorial voice, "what if you have to go to Tokyo after a bill has been defeated?" Clinton paused a second or two. "I couldn't go," he replied...
...shadowy hallway on the fourth floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, where Moynihan dwells at one end and Oklahoma's bumptious David Boren resides at the other. The round of frantic conferences began among the Finance Committee's Democrats and White House handlers. The White House designated Secretary Bentsen to ride shotgun on Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really more in sympathy with Moynihan than with his Administration. The question remained, to use the words...