Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harry met the President-elect when his brother Danny, an optometrist in Little Rock who has known Clinton since they were college students, introduced them in the late 1960s. After Harry met Linda -- she had walked up to him at Columbia studios and said, "So you're the other hick on the lot" -- he went over with her to the Governor's mansion one morning for coffee and strawberries. The four didn't stop talking until many hours later. As a granddaughter of a muckraking Arkansas newspaper editor (he was shot by the Ku Klux Klan) and the daughter...
...surprise party for Harry's 52nd birthday last November, the President- elect gave the toast with the caveat that he did not think anyone could possibly know what the Thomasons meant to him unless they had been through as many ups and downs with him as they had in the campaign. "Harry was there when I got sick and I was under siege and I got so fat I could hardly walk. Everyone else was making fun of me, but Harry just went out and bought me bigger suits." Late at night, when she was too weary to do anything...
That should not have been a great surprise to the President-elect, since he had been hearing much the same from his aides -- who nonetheless howled that Bush had been concealing the dismaying truth. The new figures, however, are so bad as to call into question whether Clinton can cut the deficit at all, as he still insists he will. Doing so might require not just shelving his cherished middle-class tax cut but also enacting actual tax increases and brutal cuts in some spending programs. And those could work at cross-purposes to his program to "grow the economy...
...said he will travel to Washington today to meet with officials on President-elect Clinton's transition team...
...offense of entering the zone and then turning to confront U.S. F-16s. The American aircraft shot down one MiG; the other fled to Iran. Iraqi officials blasted the incident as "blatant aggression." President Bush said the shootdown was consistent with the need to enforce U.N. resolutions, and President-elect Bill Clinton gave him solid support. A day later, even as the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was diverted from Somalia to the Persian Gulf, Iraqi warplanes violated the zone again, but retreated when U.S. fighters approached...