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...accords with the Palestinians in 1993, the steam started to go out of the peace movement. Israelis became convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat played a double game, talking peace but battling Israelis from within the Jewish state and the Palestinian territories. In 2000, after the collapse of the Clinton Administration's peace talks at Camp David, Arafat, claiming that Israel had failed to honor its commitments, presided over a second intifadeh. Then came the wave of suicide bombings from 2001 through mid-2002, which wreaked terror in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...only to review the recent tally of Bill Clinton's postpresidential earnings to see how things have changed. But making money has seldom been any former President's chief goal; making, or remaking, history is - and it's only partially within a President's power to achieve. Truman now ranks among our top Presidents, but the peaceful end of the Cold War sure helped. Jimmy Carter has climbed from 34% to 64% approval since leaving office, but more out of respect for his humanitarian work than reconsideration of his presidency. "I don't expect many short-term historians to write...
...health-care system and foreign policy. Quietly, the Obama transition team reviewed every government agency "to find out which specific programs were working and which weren't." It was a terrifyingly brisk and comprehensive process, especially compared with the dust storm produced by the last Democratic President, Bill Clinton, during his chaotic transition period. "During Clinton's transition, you had all these people writing ad hoc papers about what to do at this agency or how to deal with that policy, but that was an extension of how Clinton's mind works," says one of the many Obama aides...
...that much interest in actually making it work more efficiently. By contrast, Obama and his eclectic team of appointees give the impression of being positively intoxicated by the prospect of figuring out how everything works. Obama's closest aides like to say he isn't a "wonk" like Clinton, immersed in policy details to the point of immobility, but clearly the new President has a breadth and depth of policy interests, especially in comparison with his immediate predecessor. (See the best of the Obama Inaugural merchandise...
...some ways, the most surprising of his appointments - Hillary Clinton, the new Secretary of State - has emerged as an exemplar of Obamism. At her confirmation hearing, Clinton seemed completely prepared on every imaginable topic, orderly, undramatic and yet willing to propose some radical changes in the State Department's structure. She seems intent on tilting the department away from its stultifying bureaucratic orthodoxies and toward solving specific problems. To do so, she will appoint no fewer than five, and perhaps more, high-profile special envoys who will do the heavy lifting and share her spotlight on the most vexing foreign...