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...breakthrough came a week after Clinton pulled out of the Finance Committee's negotiations in order to let chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan and majority leader George Mitchell forge the compromise. McLarty said Clinton will stay "a little above" the parliamentary fray at least until the measure clears the Senate and goes to conference committee. "The point," said an adviser, "is to get something on the table so that when the economy gets better, you can take credit...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN...
That was the moment when Clinton truly understood his economic plans would be dramatically rewritten in a shadowy hallway on the fourth floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, where Moynihan dwells at one end and Oklahoma's bumptious David Boren resides at the other. The round of frantic conferences began among the Finance Committee's Democrats and White House handlers. The White House designated Secretary Bentsen to ride shotgun on Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really...
...measures, Moynihan and Clinton, both political intellectuals, should be a dynamic duo. But Clinton started out ignoring the Senator. That was remedied with a cozy White House dinner of men and wives. Still, the middle- road campaign Clinton became a left-laner once in the White House. Moynihan is both liberal and conservative, intrigued by diverse economic theories but also horrified by the prospect of immense new programs and bureaucracies. He even lofted his doubts in the presence of Hillary Rodham Clinton, health-care czarina. How wise would it be, he wondered out loud, to take over even more planning...
...Moynihan is notably devoted to self-interest, but at the moment party loyalty runs a close second. "There will be a bill," he declares. "My job is to get 11 committee votes." He knows, however, that delivering that tally will be only the beginning of the battle...