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...believers. One night, on the Wednesday before the voting, at the Pontchartrain Center outside New Orleans, about 700 people showed up, a big crowd. It was dinnertime, after work, and they could have been home relaxing, watching TV, helping with homework, but instead they got in the van and drove on the highway to stand and cheer for a man who they knew would give a bad speech and who in a week would be an asterisk in a boring book...
When we landed, we drove to our apartment in Manhattan. I had a legal brief I had to get out to a client. Dick's a faster typist, so he typed it up for me. While we were in the apartment, that's when the President, the Vice President and the First Lady called. They had been trying to reach us in Connecticut...
Later Thursday evening I drove us back to Connecticut. Reporters were on our property taking pictures. My mother, who was staying at our house, was scared and had called the police, who came over. They arranged to meet our car a mile from the house to escort us home. Reporters had surrounded the house and were shining lights at the car. I kept honking and driving in slowly. I called a friend who has a private security service, and he sent two guards over. Some friends had brought food and had dinner waiting on the table...
Once inside the Clinton operation, Morris drove staff members crazy just as he'd made Republican operatives boil over--by becoming Clinton's secret agent, bypassing the hierarchy and talking privately with the President on the phone and after hours. "Mystery," he likes to say, "is an integral part of power." For a while he was known only as Charlie--so named by Clinton--the unseen force that hijacked speeches and made policies change course. Chief of staff Leon Panetta threatened to quit unless Clinton brought Morris into the structure. Deputy chief of staff Ickes, his adversary since the 1960s...
...mean some progress was made toward resolving border disputes between the two nations, as well as the future of Eastern Slavonia, a region of Croatia that resisted secession from Serbia-dominated Yugoslavia. Croatia only last year put down a rebellion by the local Serb population, and the conflict drove many Croatian Serbs into Serbia and Montenegro. Scot Woods