Word: lieberman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January 1996 there was another memo to Ickes and chief of staff Leon Panetta. This one, from Evelyn Lieberman, another deputy chief of staff, urged more coffees. In 1995 and '96 there would be a total of 103, several in a good week-- enough to produce mild caffeine overload and $27 million. But the really notable part of that memo was the warning by Lieberman that during two weeks of intense activity, "staff who routinely brief the President will be asked to be flexible during this period and accept that their briefings may be considerably truncated or eliminated...
...help him deal with politicians and the press. In a typical recent week, Republican Senator Dan Coats of Indiana phoned to work with Bennett on a bill that would expand tax incentives for contributions to charities that benefit the poor, while Democratic Senators Sam Nunn of Georgia and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut volunteered to help with the crusade against trashy entertainment. Newt Gingrich scheduled a meeting with Bennett, and Rush Limbaugh phoned for an interview. The mail arrived in several cartons and contained, along with a dozen speaking invitations and Bennett's bulging brokerage statements, a photo of Bennett chatting...
...Michael Sandel, got a column-long tribute from conservative George Will. The "communitarians," such as Amitai Etzioni, draw praise from the left (Clinton and Al Gore) and the right (Jack Kemp and Bennett). And Bennett's attack on tabloid TV came at the suggestion of a Democrat, Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...most credible accuser. As the train headed for Michigan City, Indiana, its last stop before Chicago, McCurry and other Clinton aides talked about whether to present the bad news to the President, who had to keep focused on finishing his acceptance speech. Deputy chief of staff Evelyn Lieberman urged that Clinton be told right away...
Late that afternoon, the train arrived in Michigan City, where a crowd of 30,000 cheered and waved flags. Awaiting the President was a limousine that would take him to a helicopter for his final hop to Chicago. In the car his advisers Bruce Lindsey and Lieberman told him of the impending Morris story. Clinton took the news coolly, according to White House staffers. Though he can blow up over small things, big setbacks concentrate his mind. On the flight into Chicago, he and his aides played hearts, a favorite Clinton game. But even then it was becoming obvious...