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Coleman: [Ike] had this reputation of being hands-off, that he wasn't interested in getting his hands dirty into policy, the standoffish meetings. And then once the papers come out in the '80s, you start to realize, Hang on--this guy knew what was going...
...mean, it's impossible to think about Watergate without thinking about Nixon's temperament, his sort of dark sense of enemies everywhere. And Bill Clinton--[his] failure was a deeply personal failure with Monica Lewinsky, and it's a failure of discipline. I mean, this is a man who knew that ... for years there were people out to get him, and he, even in that environment, didn't have the personal discipline necessary to avoid creating a problem that ... for all of history will...
Riley: [Clinton] knew this was a wrong thing to do. All right, that's a character failure. But there is also a temperamental failure, which is a lack of discipline and a lack of what for a better term would be an inability to learn from past experience, an inability to adapt to a hostile environment. I mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around...
...what she represents, as opposed to who she was—feels so relatable. There is something in her languorous pronunciation of consonants—L’s and R’s morph into disyllabic sounds—that draws nebulous, martyrizing declarations out of those who knew her well and those who didn’t. “There was no fire behind her,” bass player and producer Harvey Brooks told NPR in reference to her attempts at studio recording. “By the time the fire came, her personal fire...
...rest of her life, she did some major re-evaluating and began working in an agency mailroom. “I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory,” Snider said, “and I knew I had to do something remarkable.” Cut to Snider’s big break: she is sitting bored in the mailroom, flipping through the latest issue of Cosmo. She calls up her friend at a publishing house and asks after any compelling manuscripts. The friend mentions that Scott...