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...right man for the job at this time. Outgoing chief Leon Panetta is a master legislator who knows his way around the Hill and knows how lawmakers want to be treated. Bowles has none of that personal experience or policy savvy, a disadvantage in dealing with a bitter Republican Congress and a bruising budget fight. "He doesn't suffer fools gladly," says Doug Sosnik, Clinton's political director. "That may not always serve him well in Washington...
...working phone number. The ridiculous facts I had checked were included, but my praise for the importance of my job--the entire second half of the article--had been cut! With the stroke of a pen, I had been transformed from a cheerful, hardworking intern to a bitter, sarcastic employee. And people around the nation had read it, and had taken it for the truth...
...people had been notified and knew what they were doing, it would be a different thing. But this was just picking people out and shooting poison into them--I'm pretty bitter about that...
...Leadership Council, the centrist group Clinton helped found. "It's very important that Clinton move early to draw Republican and centrist Democrats in, work from the center out and build a broad coalition around reform. If he lets the thing deteriorate into partisanship, it will be a lot more bitter and a lot less productive...
That makes 1996 a bitter, bitter occasion for the G.O.P. History has been toying most cruelly with the Republican Party. The six-election presidential scoreboard now stands tied at 3-3. And each side has chalked up a re-election victory for an incumbent whose success the other side finds enraging and inexplicable. In short: now we're even...