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...Christopher was vacationing, heard the first radio report of the shelling. Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of Defense William Perry and General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were also on vacation; Washington was being run by deputies. While the President monitored events from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Talbott convened an 8 a.m. meeting in his office, certain that what he faced was "a test of the London rules," according to a senior aide...
...once Bill Clinton could get angry about bosnia without feeling helpless. The President was outraged when he first learned about the carnage in the Sarajevo market last Monday. On the phone from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he was vacationing, he told his National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, that if, as expected, the Bosnian Serbs were found to be responsible, nato would have to retaliate. By shelling Sarajevo, he said, the Serbs were daring the Western alliance--and specifically the U.S.-to live up to its recent promise to answer such attacks with substantial air strikes. "This absolutely requires a response...
...rafting trip through nine miles of turbulence on Wyoming's Snake River--with a flotilla of reporters and security men paddling furiously behind--was the high point of the President's first full week of vacation. Clinton also suffered happily through a steady drizzle at the annual Jackson Hole Rodeo. And, inevitably, he played golf...
...mishit the ball on chip shots so that it dribbles just a few yards. Passing tourists beware: When Clinton and Erskine Bowles, his deputy chief of staff and regular golf partner, take to the South Lawn, they sometimes move 60 yds. back and play the green like a hole on a regular course, minus the long drive. When there's time, Bowles and Clinton pack up at around 5:30 p.m. and head for one of Washington's golf courses, where they play "until it's absolutely dark," says Bowles...
...tells just about anyone who will listen, which is pretty much everyone since he is the President, one of his goals in life is to score below 80 on the links before he turns 50. Clinton, who turned 49 last Saturday, wasted no time pursuing his dream in Jackson Hole. On his first day of vacation, he played two rounds. "Oh, no!" he shouted after teeing off for the first round and watching his shot fade left. He ended up posting scores in the mid-80s. Next day, however, he shot a tantalizingly close...