Word: kerrey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kerrey was enjoying his moments in the sun. His antechamber looked like the White House pressroom, with a dozen camera crews and a clutch of reporters seeking clues from Kerrey's typically elliptical ruminations. Sample: "This ((bill)) could be the first step towards something good or the first step towards something bad. This could be the first step to hell...
...House cliff-hanger was the prelude to another in the Senate. Early on Friday the Administration found itself still shy of a victory by just one vote, the holdout being Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, known among his colleagues as "Cosmic Bob" for his epic bouts of indecision. What struck White House officials most about Kerrey's resistance was what a senior Administration official described as the "inchoate" nature of his demands. Kerrey wasn't asking for anything specific. He didn't want a post office in Omaha or a dam on the Platte River. Instead he was advocating a more...
Friday morning Kerrey met with Clinton in the family quarters for a 90- minute chat that one official described as almost entirely philosophical. Kerrey urged the President to, as he said repeatedly, "connect." Al Gore joined the meeting briefly, and Kerrey spoke separately with chief of staff Mack McLarty. Later, Finance Committee chairman Pat Moynihan went to Kerrey to say, essentially, If you don't vote our way, this whole ball game is over: the North American Free Trade Agreement, health care, national service -- everything...
...White House really guessing is Bob Kerrey of Nebraska. White House officials believe that Kerrey, Clinton's onetime rival in the Democratic primaries, resents the fact that Clinton campaigned for a middle- class tax cut and against a gasoline tax, only now to call upon Kerrey to bail him out on the Senate floor. Kerrey has been telling friends in the Senate that Clinton "doesn't deserve this" and has confounded Administration lobbyists by not asking for any concessions in exchange for a vote. "Kerrey," said a top White House political operative, "is the least predictable...
Meanwhile Clinton discovered that getting what he wanted without a fight with Congress was impossible. He had one significant ally in Senator Bob Kerrey, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner who lost a leg in Vietnam. In a speech last week, Kerrey admitted that his own experience in the Navy SEALs had caused him initially "to drift toward the military point of view." But he changed his mind in May after he heard Marine Colonel Fred Peck testify that he would not want his gay son to serve in the Marines, fearful that his son's life would be threatened...