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...eventual arm twisting easier. Along the way she remembered that it would be possible to fit more people into the President's first official dinner on Sunday night and told an aide to send out more invitations. By then it was time to have a long chat with Chelsea about her second day of school, before being honored at a reception by the National Child Labor Committee for youth services. She gave a 15-minute speech about the importance of giving something back to the community and didn't get home to the White House until about...
...AIDS victim Ryan White induced a dry cry in Clinton. "Mr. About-to-Be-President," as music mogul Quincy Jones addressed him, gave the thumbs-up to Bob Dylan, though the old folkie's mumble through Chimes of Freedom earned a look of wry amazement from First Daughter Chelsea...
...constellations because they recognized in Clinton one of their own. Not just that he plays the saxophone, a little. Or that Hillary is a smart, tough lawyer, like most Hollywood moguls. Or that Tipper Gore is a photojournalist with a motherly interest in pop music. Or that Chelsea was working her video recorder at the Inaugural. What matters is that Clinton is a prime communicator, a beacon of middle-class charisma, a lover of being loved, a believer in the importance -- perhaps the primacy -- of image, metaphor, style. And an ace manipulator of media, selling his symbols directly...
...then he and his team were put to the test. One after another the signals came: Chelsea's private school, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's reluctance to sever his ties to his lucrative clients, the corporate sponsorship of the Inaugural hoopla. He nominated a core of advisers that included 14 lawyers, many of them multimillionaires, all of them earning more than $100,000 -- a feat matched by only 3% of all Americans. His inner circle belongs to a class defined not by its inheritance but by its graduate degrees. At least five, like Clinton, studied in England, and half...
...does Clinton seem eager to hurl spears at the Democratic special interests that have long held sway over party doctrine. When the Clintons decided to send their 13-year-old daughter Chelsea to a private school, they failed to accompany the announcement with any challenge to public schools or teachers' unions to make themselves more competitive. On the contrary: Clinton's designated Education Secretary vowed that the President-elect opposed a pilot program to extend to lower- and middle-income families the choice of private schools that the Clintons enjoy. "One is left wondering," said a Clinton adviser, "when...