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...White House itself. Andrew Johnson turned up drunk for Lincoln's second Inaugural; Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt barely spoke on their way to the Capitol, and Ike refused to have coffee with Truman. The Clintons, true to form, were nearly half an hour late to meet the elder Bushes at the White House in 1993. This time they had a few minutes to kill, so the First Couple enjoyed one last dance in the White House foyer while they waited for the Bushes to arrive...
...They're just kids," said General Surayud Chulanont, commander in chief of the Thai army, after meeting them. "We think they may have been used as fronts by older rebels." But at least one Karen elder gives them credit. "They really did defeat the Burmese with just a handful of men," he says. Karen Christian priests, who also had frequent contact with God's Army, confirmed the twins' exploits. If the boys were natural-born fighters, it was clearly in the interests of their band to elevate them to something more...
...Meanwhile, Clinton aides are quick to point to travails they suffered during their first few days at work - staffers for former president Bush reportedly removed the cords connecting receivers to phones and left office furniture spackled with photographs of the elder Bush and Bush-Quayle campaign stickers. One staff member remembers an especially prescient note left in a desk occupied by a Bush aide. It read, simply, "We'll be back...
President Bill Clinton was there, of course, and Senator Hillary Clinton, and the Gores and all the swirling dramas among them. The Carters were in the crowd, and the elder Bushes - everyone watching to see if George would cry. And of course the Cheneys, and the new First Lady, and the new president, George W. Bush, walking onstage just after 11:30 a.m., accompanied by a just-barely bipartisan entourage of senators and congressman all accompanied by the ghosts of John Quincy Adams and his father...
...This is why O'Neill's résumé does not include a top job in the Reagan administration, why he spoke up in favor of Bush the elder's infamous tax hike, and why he called the Clinton administration's record of fiscal discipline and economic stability "wonderful...