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Politeness makes sense to the politicos. Neither this city nor its suburbs have any native industry--you won't find many meat-packing plants in Georgetown or in posh Falls Church, Va., Potomac, Md.--and the bird-to-victim ration is high...
...began four decades earlier in Hope, Arkansas, learned of his death at about 10 p.m. After cutting short a live interview with Larry King in the library of the residence, he immediately called Hillary, who was in Little Rock. He then ordered an unmarked van to take him to Georgetown to visit Foster's wife Lisa. He stayed there for several hours, then returned for a vigil with friends at the White House, where he said "we did a lot of crying and a little bit of laughing" remembering the man Clinton called his Rock of Gibraltar. "When...
...this while, her husband, Martin Ginsburg, was on his way to becoming one of the pre-eminent tax lawyers in the country (he advises Ross Perot, who endowed a chair at Georgetown Law in his name) and sharing the tasks of family life. The two had met as undergraduates during her first semester at Cornell when Marty gave a lift to a friend in his old Chevrolet to pick up a date who lived in the dorm room next to Ruth's. The minute Ruth graduated in 1954, they got married at his parents' house...
Within an hour of the family's arrival at Georgetown Hospital, John Paul's grand birthday celebration has turned into a picnic in a tiny emergency-room cubicle where the boy lies with a stream of antibiotics running into his arm. Soon the Cisneroses get good news: the infection is under control, and the child can go home for the night...
Gergen's arrival will bring turmoil in that key indicator of the White House pecking order: office assignments. "Now it really gets ugly," a staff member predicted. The joke was that the big tent going up on the South Lawn for the President's 25th Georgetown class reunion last week was actually a temporary shelter for homeless senior staff. On Saturday, chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty decreed that Gergen will move into the office of former communications director George Stephanopoulos, where the very fashionable shade of gray paint has barely had time to dry. Stephanopoulos, now a senior policy...