Word: legacyism
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President Clinton rarely makes a move without first calibrating how it will play with the American people. So one can assume that the books he brought on his vacation, the titles of which the White House released last week, have been painstakingly chosen to send a message about his legacy...
"It was not something the director felt good about doing," an intelligence official said of CIA chief GEORGE TENET's decision to strip his predecessor, JOHN DEUTCH, of his security clearance. "This is someone he worked for, who is a friend and a mentor." But, he adds, "what transpired was...
Former Los Alamos security chief Robert S. Vrooman says he?s tired of hearing about the Wen that got away. So a week after Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recommended Vrooman be punished for botching the spying case against fired-but-never-charged Wen Ho Lee, Vrooman got on the phone...
For Cronin, the impulse for his lifework came from family history. "I was raised along the river," he says. "I was in the first generation that was taught the river was unsafe--not because of tides that might pull you down but because of water quality. As a young adult...
Kennedy is not ashamed to use his famous name to boost his climb. Until last week's vigil darkened the family's Hyannis Port compound, he had planned to hold a clambake there in September for $100,000 donors. On the stump, he often invokes his father and the memories...