Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which was prologue last week when he appeared at a White House prayer breakfast before a mostly friendly audience of more than 100 clergy and other guests. Acknowledging that his Aug. 17 address to the nation was "not contrite enough," he dug a little deeper into himself and came up with this: "I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned," he said, explaining that he had reached "the rock-bottom truth of where...
...months, it's likely to contain more moments like that one--"remorse ops," you might call them--at which regrets will be offered to his family and friends, to his Cabinet and staff, to Monica Lewinsky and her family (whom he mentioned for the first time at the prayer breakfast) and to the American people. Before this is over he'll be apologizing to our pets. But to anyone familiar with the boom-and-bust cycles of the Clinton psyche--and by now who isn't?--his dark morning of the soul was also important because so often...
...spot asking voters to forgive him for the missteps of his first Administration, like raising taxes and appearing aloof. But that public self-abasement was just a first step in the aggressive campaign that returned him to office in 1982. And nestled among his remorseful words at the prayer breakfast last week was the passing observation that, all the same, "I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defense" against Kenneth Starr's allegations...
...needs, he is already framing his survival as crucial to the Democratic Party agenda, or what's left of it, though issues like Social Security and health-care reform might be better advanced now if he just stepped aside and let Al Gore take them up. At the prayer breakfast he also managed to describe his potential resurrection as an opportunity for "the children of this country" to learn moral lessons about selfishness and regeneration...
...best sign that the President is marshaling himself for a real fight may have been the expression on his face at that prayer breakfast. Clinton had found his groove again. Gone was the stunned and dejected man of one week earlier in Moscow, the one who had gone through the motions of a press conference with Boris Yeltsin. At the breakfast Clinton sometimes spoke with the faint but unmistakable trace of a smile. You could see him warming to his subject, even when the subject was his own abjection. Throughout Clinton's political career he has been happiest and most...