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...completely flabbergasted to find herself at the center of the storm. I'll be honest: I never imagined it either. I thought this was about Paula Jones v. William Jefferson Clinton. What's Monica feeling? She's feeling anxiety, fear, concern and, yes, anger. Who's going to give her a job after this? She is worried about her family. How mortifying all this is. When will she be able to walk in a park, go shopping at Target or on Rodeo Drive or Connecticut Avenue? Monica has been branded with a scarlet letter, an A for adultery. Now will...
...again), he may have so unrepentantly and blithely and cynically--and maybe pathologically--persisted. Some Clinton haters indulged in mere prurient dudgeon. But plenty of parents were incensed in a nonpartisan way by the thought that the young woman might have been thus debauched in the house of Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. Could the President truly have divided his time between worrying about his place in history and corrupting an intern? Now he may have a convergence, with the second activity defining the first...
Discussion over coffee turned to the question of whose vision of America was right for today: Alexander Hamilton's--he saw a big economy guided by self-interest and a muscular national government--or Thomas Jefferson's--he championed responsibility to society and mistrusted taking too much power away from individuals and their communities. Hamilton seemed to be carrying the argument, until Harvard professor Michael Sandel happened to notice whose portrait hung on the dimly lit wall of the Blue Room and whose marble memorial cast a moonlike glow across the Ellipse. Yes, Sandel said, Hamilton's influence endures...
...What Jefferson understood, Sandel argued, was the feelings of apprehension and powerlessness that went along with building the greatest economy in the history of the world. It is a tension that Clinton is giving more thought to since last fall, when he suffered the biggest defeat of his second term: Congress's refusal to give him the "fast track" authority he sought to negotiate more NAFTA-like trade deals. Former White House aide Bill Galston, who attended the dinner, says Clinton is convinced the defeat was not a failure of tactics or the work of interest groups but rather...
...recipient of this honor, Bailyn joins intellectual luminaries such as Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Barbara Tuchman and Toni Morrison, all of whom were chosen to deliver past Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities