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George Bush drew a line in the sand on Kuwait. Bill Clinton draws the line closer to home. The President, capitalizing on his new reputation as the Arkansas strongman, took a tough stand against an old challenger from The New York Times, columnist William Safire. In his column last Tuesday, Safire had the gall to call the First Lady a "congenital liar" for her obsfucation about "Travelgate," her wildly successful commodities career and some obscure beachfront property in Arkansas...
...President, if he were not the President, would have delivered a more forceful response to that, on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose." --White House spokesperson Mike McCurry, on the President's response to New York Times columnist William Safire, who referred to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a congenital liar...
...President reportedly wants to punch columnist William Safire for impugning his wife's integrity over Whitewater and the travel office firings. Press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters today that, after reading Safire's Monday column, which called the first lady "a congenital liar," Clinton was so steamed, that "if he were not the president, would have delivered a more forceful response to that on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose...
...greatest aspirations as a columnist has been to bring poorly publicized but still pressing issues into the collective awareness. Often, the people hurt by a particular injustice are those most powerless to defend themselves through legislation, finance and the media. It is important to give these people a public voice, however small, that they might not otherwise have...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Should American families be taxed to enrich the shareholders of powerful companies like Disney, Time Warner, and TCI? Raising that question in Thursday's New York Times, columnist William Safire reports that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole told him that the sweeping telecommunications reform bill, already passed by the House and Senate and now in conference to resolve differences, effectively loans telecom giants immensely valuable new digital bandwidths worth an estimated $70 billion. "This is a big, big corporate welfare project," Safire says Dole told him. "Here we're cutting Medicaid and doing all the painful things while...