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Perhaps more telling than anything he said was what Clinton did. He put Rahm Emanuel, who has moved into George Stephanopoulos' old office as senior political adviser, in charge of the reform campaign. Emanuel, a strategically rude, hyper sometime ballet dancer and former Israeli soldier who makes enemies first and friends later, is especially good at keeping Clinton in line. He spent much of the first four years pushing long-shot legislation to victory, including NAFTA and the crime bill; both were campaigns in which Clinton at various times turned squishy...
...hoping the entire place will be packed wall-to-wall," said Cheng, who organized the dance with co-chair Emanuel J. Brown...
...senior official who can't resist sending up the Permanent Campaigner's assault on history. "We'll bring in [presidential scholar] Michael Beschloss to spin the historians. If any of them has a question, [National Economic Council chief] Gene Sperling will fax him an answer. [Senior adviser] Rahm Emanuel has checked out every biography of a two-term President--and we're going to be bad-mouthing all of them. With the money left over from the '96 campaign, we'll run ads wherever there's a presidential library. We don't have to finish first, just ahead of Eisenhower...
...proposal, federal support of school uniforms, which was endorsed by the New Democratic policy advisers Bruce Reed and Rahm Emanuel, did not test well. Penn and Morris were reluctant to include it. (There wasn't room for ideas that didn't test well, Morris said. Polls showed that people didn't want a speech longer than 40 minutes.) But Emanuel and Reed took the matter to Clinton. The President had talked to Attorney General Janet Reno, who had recently returned from Long Beach, California, where school uniforms were being used to combat delinquency."I want it in," Clinton told them...
Today, Clinton named Charlotte investment banker and Washington outsider Erskine Bowles as his new chief of staff. Leon Panetta is leaving that post. Laura D'Andrea Tyson will abandon her post as head of the National Economic Council. Two other high-ranking aides, George Stephanopolous and Rahm Emanuel, are also departing...