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...originate with Clinton. Instead it appeared to come from AA's management. On Monday, hours after rejecting a call by flight attendants for a presidential emergency board, American sent a signal to Washington that the airline was ready to deal. That persuaded Clinton's senior adviser Bruce Lindsey to begin calling AA representatives and Denise Hedges, head of the flight attendants' union. A few hours later, all that remained was to pull Clinton out of an afternoon meeting so he could spend five minutes on the phone with each party. Said an Administration official: "It probably set a record...
...that the only link is their coincidental association with McDougal. Clinton said last week that neither he nor Hillary had done anything improper. "Knowing and being associated with Jim McDougal looked a lot different when he seemed to be a successful entrepreneur than it does now," says Bruce Lindsey, another native Arkansan, now senior adviser to the President. Indeed, based on the evidence known thus far, the Clintons may be guilty only of poor business judgment (they lost nearly $70,000 on the Whitewater deal) and a lack of discrimination in choosing their friends...
Every costume told a story. David Gergen disguised himself as Richard Nixon, his hands rising in the famous V-for-victory gesture. The much feared adviser and friend Susan Thomases was a Pilgrim. Affable communications director Mark Gearan became a gorilla, while mild-mannered personnel chief Bruce Lindsey wore a nun's habit. Pirate George Stephanopoulos huddled with media whiz Mandy Grunwald, who looked for all the world like a health security card. White House decorator Kaki Hockersmith--Scarlett O'Hara--had her dress made from fabric matching the curtains in the Lincoln Bedroom...
Other people are simply in over their heads -- literally, in some cases. Clinton asked Arkansas chum Bruce Lindsey to oversee the appointments process and remain at his side on trips out of town. But Lindsey is so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of paper crossing his desk that he has resorted to a method of filing that consists of crisscrossing documents as they came in: one sideways, one straight, one sideways and so on. When one stack grew too tall, he started another. When he ran out of flat surfaces, he added to a previous stack. Soon the stacks collapsed...
Just as troubling is Clinton's apparent resistance to discipline. He has extended automatic walk-in rights to the Oval Office -- a privilege that is heavily restricted by most Presidents -- to nearly a dozen people: Hillary, McLarty, Lindsey, Gore, Stephanopoulos, Neel, Nussbaum, economic chief Bob Rubin, personal assistant Nancy Hernreich and National Security Adviser Tony Lake. The open-door policy has forced him to be his own chief of staff and caused the White House to move in too many directions at once, with little coordination...