Word: maraniss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specific anecdotes may be new, but the former Arkansas Governor portrayed in the meticulously detailed First in His Class, a forthcoming Clinton biography by Washington Post staff writer David Maraniss, is a familiar one. The book depicts Clinton as a lover and a fighter and also a smart, eager-to-please, indecisive political animal who was White House bound from early on. But the book, which is due out in March, resuscitates some more troubling issues as well: that as an elected official Clinton used state troopers to help him get sex, and as a presidential hopeful he tried...
...biography of President Clinton claims that he decided against running for the office in 1988 for fear of stories about extramarital affairs. "First In His Class," by Washington Post staff writer David Maraniss, says Clinton dropped the idea of running that year after his then-top aide, Betsey Wright, listed the names of women with whom he had been rumored to be involved, and then advised him to forgo the race out of deference to his wife and daughter. Maraniss writes that Wright "was convinced that some state troopers were soliciting women for him and he for them." Wright said...
...Adams was like a Renaissance Florentineacademy," former resident James E. Maraniss '66says. "It was a place where you were anintellectual and an aesthete. However, there wasalso a slight aura of decadence there...
...Bill had some elitist ideas about societywhich I think were associated with his socialbackground from the ruling class," Maraniss said...
...Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company, which owned the oil cargo, recruited cleanup crews in Louisiana. With considerable understatement, Linda Maraniss, regional director of the Center for Marine Conservation, observed, "There was a general confusion about where the equipment was and who was in charge...