Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generally been true that a White House can handle only one crisis at a time. So the last thing Clinton needed last week was another p.r. disaster. Many inside the White House and on Capitol Hill were astonished that a moment as important as the Columbus, Ohio, town meeting could yield such a foul-up. "Any one of us should have recognized that we needed a presidential-level advance for that," said spokesman Mike McCurry. In private, others admitted that many of the normal keepers of the President's image were so wrapped up in the bedclothes that they...
Halfway through the rumpus in Columbus, shell-shocked officials from the White House, State Department and Pentagon formed a worried huddle on a side aisle of Ohio State University's basketball arena. The place was so rowdy and raucous, they thought, it was threatening to dissolve into chaos. What should they do? Should they pull the plug on this so-called town meeting and hustle their bosses off the center-court stage? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was scowling, calling for quiet. Defense Secretary William Cohen looked stunned, disbelieving, his toe tapping nervously under his seat. National Security Adviser Sandy...
...expects the operation to be bloodless. The White House has begun preparing Americans for unpleasant pictures from Baghdad and less-than-perfect results from the battlefield. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger were scheduled to hold a town meeting in Columbus, Ohio, this week on the military operation. General Henry H. Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week went out of his way to prepare the public for the death of some U.S. servicemen. "The truth is, war is a dirty thing," he said...
...COLUMBUS: This was supposed to be just a prewar formality for the poll-sensitive Clinton administration: an interactive town hall meeting in Ohio intended to sell the nation -- and the world -- on military action against Iraq. But the President's three foreign-policy salesmen nearly got the door slammed in their faces. Madeleine Albright's opening statement was interrupted by chants of "One, two, three, four, we don't want your racist war!" from a handful of protesters. Bill Cohen and Sandy Berger both got a scream or two of "Murderer!" One man angrily denounced the entire forum...
Inside, the cathedral is a monument to enormity, befitting the religious ecstasies of Gothic architecture. It is both a functioning church, a crypt--the remains of Christopher Columbus, who died more than 100 years before Harvard was founded, are said to lie here--and a treasure house of art and reliquaries...