Word: helling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...introducing everyone all around, taking a shine to a couple of Clinton's aides and generally making folks feel at ease. Clinton was more subdued, still recovering from his quadruple-bypass operation five months before, but not so much that he could resist staying up at night playing Oh Hell! with Jean Becker, Bush's chief of staff...
CLINTON He drove like a bat out of hell...
This was already a year that redefined generosity. Americans gave more money to tsunami relief, more than $1.6 billion, than to any overseas mission ever before. The Hurricane Season from Hell brought another outpouring of money and time and water bottles and socks and coats and offers of refuge, some $2.7 billion so far. The public failure of government to manage disaster became the political story of the year. But the private response of individuals, from every last lemonade stand to every mitten drive, is the human story...
BUSH I don't think there's one formula that fits all. In a book, Harry Truman wrote a chapter, "What to Do with Former Presidents," and he had a suggestion to make them nonvoting members of Congress for life. Well, who the hell needs that? It's ridiculous. I say, "Go out and do your own thing." It's individual. If future Presidents decide to work together, then great. But I don't think one size fits...
...that the Quad has great events to begin with. As an example, consider my enduring bitterness at being turned away from last year’s Pfoho 90s dance because of a crowd that exceeded capacity. Backstreet was back, and I was stuck outside. It was positively (heaven and) Hell...