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...really good sense of accomplishment," Burns said. "It's been a lot of work--I can't even begin to convey how much work and how much intensity we have put into this...
When it was over and the two leaders turned to walk away down the red carpet, Clinton reached out and put his arm around Netanyahu. It was an instinctive gesture for the President, an effort to convey warmth amid a general chill. Awkwardly, Netanyahu reciprocated...
...then the team went to work. A great deal of their communication with Dyachenko and Yeltsin's other aides was conducted by written memorandums. "Translation was a constant problem," says Dresner. "We spent a full day trying to convey what we meant by having Yeltsin stay 'on message.'" Minister Borodin says, "Having the memos let the President consider them calmly. We had many discussions about the recommendations and in the end adopted most everything the Americans advised...
...lost. Many people felt some nostalgia for what the communists had done for Russia and no one liked the President--but they liked the possibility of riots and class warfare even less." "'Stick with Yeltsin and at least you'll have calm'--that was the line we wanted to convey," says Dresner. "So the drumbeat about unrest kept pounding right till the end of the run-off round, when the final TV spots were all about the Soviets' repressive rule...
...friend" of his the show managed to book was Milton Berle. Koppel's choice for the all-time worst Nightline is a 1985 interview with Le Duc Tho, in which the former North Vietnamese negotiator rattled on interminably (as fellow guest Henry Kissinger fumed) because his interpreter refused to convey Koppel's desperate efforts to stop him. A rare guest who Koppel says got the better of him: Mandy Grunwald, who spoke for candidate Bill Clinton when Gennifer Flowers first surfaced. Grunwald blasted Nightline for covering the story at all. "Mandy nailed me," Koppel concedes...