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Most refrain from making generalizations about Clinton's foreign policy performance, but they all agree that the Bosnia conflict "is a real mess and not something we can handle very easily," as Royer says...

Author: By Margaret C. Boyer, | Title: CLINTON'S ROCKY START | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...doesn't Europe appear as concerned as we? After all, it would be far less costly for them to intervene than for the U.S. to do so. And it is Europe that directly faces the consequences. Could it be that (heaven forbid!) the U.S. is wrong? That this whole mess is not all that strategically important...

Author: By Rajesh Yerasi, | Title: Loss of American Lives Not Worth the Battle | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...schedule change? She says, 'Tell me who's coming and what I need to do.' " When nothing is going right and it's gray outside, and it will be another late workday, she's the one who says, "Let's go eat," and everyone troops down to the mess for taco salad and Oreo yogurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The Center Of POWER | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Hillary was at lunch in the White House mess in March when Carolyn Huber, the former administrator of the Governor's mansion, walked in. When Huber bent over and whispered in her ear, Hillary's face turned white. That afternoon she and Chelsea left for St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, and the President arrived two days later. Hillary made it to her father's bedside in time to say goodbye. "When we got there, for the first couple of days," she recalls, "he knew we were there, and it was wonderful." She returned to Washington after 16 days, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The Center Of POWER | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...plate by far, including the real measures by which he will ultimately be judged, like deficit reduction and health-care reform -- two goals that will require the greatest skill now that the latest private White House assessment has concluded that the money needed to fix the health-care mess could reach $175 billion, a sum more than twice the initial forecast. "The stimulus fight will look like a picnic compared with health care," says a Clinton aide. "But everything's possible if we include everyone in. On the other hand, nothing's possible if we continue to turn every disagreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest the First 100 Days | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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