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Leon Panetta is wasting no time in trying to yank President Clinton's legislative agenda out of the gutter lane. In his first 24 hours as White House chief of staff, the former budget director and congressional powerhouse held cloakroom negotiations with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Clinton's troubled health care package, went on TV to pooh-pooh a weekend poll showing sinking approval ratings, then staged a lunch for 40 reporters to push Clinton's well-received crime and welfare reform bills. TIME White House correspondent Michael Duffy says Panetta is moving quickly to clarify the stakes...
...relations," he explained. "You have to be in harmony." Wednesday: Was said by a Russian newspaper to have filed suit against local political opponents who, he claimed, had insulted his dignity and honor. Thursday: Accused European Council members of stealing his hat -- a fisherman's cap -- from a guarded cloakroom. Friday: Revealed that "World War III started on April 11, when NATO bombed Bosnian Serbs. This date must be remembered for future historic references." The bombing actually began on April...
Some observers noted that, as the hour grew late on the night of the vote, first-term members were yanked into the cloakroom--and emerged white as sheets. Margolies-Mezvinsky was the last lamb to be sacrificed; that was merely bad luck. If there had been one more Republican representative to tip the scales, the final Democrat might have been someone else...
About a quarter of Clinton's address was improvised, including the ad-libbed aside to snickering Republicans who doubted his estimated deficit numbers. The meal with the anchors paid off, as to a man, they praised the performance in the postgame analysis. Afterward, in the cloakroom, the President allowed himself a quiet, "Pretty good, wasn...
Maybe plumbing, not biology, is destiny. More than 70 years after women won the vote, the U.S. Senate chamber still has no women's bathroom. Even the Democratic cloakroom in the House has no ladies' room, leaving female Representatives with a hike to the Congressional Women's Reading Room, where there are all of three toilets. Future archaeologists, studying the pipes and bathroom fixtures of Capitol Hill, may conclude that late-20th century America was a fortress of patriarchy on a par with Saudi Arabia...