Word: kaffeeklatsches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the setting, the Thomasons seem less interested in political satire than in replicating Designing Women. Suzanne's staff is another kaffeeklatsch of man-abused females: a spacy receptionist left by her husband (Valerie Mahaffey); a boozy press secretary fired by the Washington Post (Teri Garr); and a hard-boiled chief aide (Patricia Heaton) embittered because the Congressman whe worked for ("the man I served...under for 14 years") is now in prison and his wife is getting all the conjugal visits...
Faced with something that approached a regular kaffeeklatsch linking the White House with agencies looking into Whitewater, an embarrassed Clinton insisted at midweek that "no one has actually done anything wrong," but nonetheless added, "I think it would be better if the meetings and conversations hadn't occurred." The President ordered McLarty to issue a rule to senior Administration officials about Whitewater chats with federal regulators: Don't have them or, before you do, clear them with...
...meeting at 11 p.m. Wednesday because Clinton was too tired to focus.) Partly because Clinton gave both government chiefs and the Japanese public a glimpse of the campaigner the U.S. has not seen since last November. At the opening summit session Wednesday, he worked the room like a campaign kaffeeklatsch, stopping to chat briefly with each of the other leaders before taking his chair. Though he talked tough at times, he set the tone at that first meeting with a sentence that sounded more Japanese than Clintonian: "In hard times we shouldn't react like porcupines. We should open...