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...second Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton was a bit more modest than his first. The crowds, estimated at a quarter-million, were about a third the size of last time. The celebrations seemed a trifle more subdued. (Why not? We're all a little older now.) Yet it was no less a day befitting what Clinton called, in his 22-minute Inaugural Address, "the world's indispensable nation"--dignified when it needed to be but otherwise at ease. Inauguration Day can be the most public of public occasions. The President squares his shoulders, raises his right hand and self-consciously...
...EISENHOWER (1ST) Almighty God 41 KENNEDY Almighty God 54 CLINTON The Almighty 67 F.D.R. (4TH) God 114 CARTER God 141 BUSH Heavenly Father 203 WASHINGTON (1ST) Almighty Being 354 TRUMAN God 355 LINCOLN (2ND) God 370 MONROE (1ST) Divine Author 510 NIXON (2ND) God 745 REAGAN (2ND) God 969 JEFFERSON (2ND) Providence 1,152 HAYES Divine Hand 2,223 LINCOLN (1ST) Almighty Ruler 3,212 TAFT Almighty God 5,431 CLINTON...
...with just 15 seconds to go and no timeouts, Bledsoe found a wide-open Shawn Jefferson down the left sideline for 38 yards to the 3. Vinatieri made a 20-yarder for a 13-3 halftime lead...
...endearing things--perhaps the only endearing thing--about the scandal that ended consultant Dick Morris' career as Bill Clinton's election-year Svengali is the fact that the prostitute who allegedly rode Morris around his Jefferson Hotel suite was more of a working woman than a working girl. Now 37, Sherry Rowlands may have represented fantasy to Morris, but the more charitable sectors of the public could imagine her as just another middle-aged single gal trying to make ends meet...
Like him or not, the "Comeback Kid," William Jefferson Clinton, is undoubtedly one of the century's greatest politicians. Many were prepared to write his political obituary after the Gingrich Revolution. But Clinton has handled himself with grace and dignity despite constant criticism during his tenure as President. He is proof that character can be shaped not only on a wartime battlefield but in political wars as well. BETH E. CECIL Fort Pierce, Florida...