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...President drummed up support by visiting Capitol Hill rather than by summoning congressional leaders to the White House, and by schmoozing with members of the National Governors' Association. He pleased them by giving states more freedom to use federal Medicaid funds as they wish. The Governors still opposed overall limits on health-care spending, though that could be a key part of Clinton's eventual proposals for health-care reform. (See related stories beginning on page...
Recent speculation on Capitol Hill brought up Breyer's name as a possibility, but George Stephanopoulos, the White House communications director, has not commented, the Journal reported...
When Baird's problems became public, Washington was deluged by phone calls in democracy's latest undemocratic innovation, whereby senators count the lights on the Capitol switchboard to take the nation's pulse (no one has yet though to calculate the margin of error of this sophisticated new opinion polling technique...
...letting the studio audience crush against the stage and switching between color and black-and-white camera work. For his part, McCartney uses the occasion to preview an upcoming world tour and offer a potent mix of Beatles hits and other songs from his new album, Off the Ground (Capitol Records), to be released next week...
When the Clintons drove up to the White House for the ride to the Capitol, the Bushes were surprised that the new residents had brought along their Hollywood-mogul friends, Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. The Thomasons had been particularly harsh about the Bush Administration. Linda walked up to the President and said, "We voted for you last time." He began to feel easier...