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...leaders met for an hour today to discuss ways to balance the federal budget, but both sides walked away from the meeting dissatisfied with their progress. Officials at the White House are saying that there is a brief "window of opportunity" for progress before the fall campaign. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he believed the window extended up to the parties' conventions in August. At the meeting, each side laid out their budgetary priorities. Clinton and the Republicans disagree over the size of proposed tax and spending cuts. This meeting comes one day after Clinton unveiled his 1997 budget proposal...
...fact is the White House does have a campaign strategy, and not talking about it is part of the plan. Rule No. 1: Be presidential. Last year that meant playing the prudent, pragmatic grownup against the disruptive adolescence of Newt Gingrich. This year it means Clinton's projecting himself as a vigorous, vital, people-loving, curious, future-minded Not-Dole. Since the President won't get much cooperation from a Republican Congress, he will focus on other strategic alliances rather than push new programs that reek of Big Government--working with business leaders on TV standards, with Governors on welfare...
...fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, a tiny hamlet 10 miles east of Selma, and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists. Over the past 18 months, while Republicans have fulminated about welfare and affirmative action, more than 20 black churches in Alabama and six other Southern and Border states have been torched...
...rest of us are not so adept. The White House called in the Secret Service. I had to get help from my local Internet provider, which managed to reduce the flow to about 50 messages an hour. Who knows what's going on at the congressional E-mailbox of Newt Gingrich, another victim? He has an automated-reply program that answers every E-mail that comes in. At week's end, millions of his form letters were still being beamed to Internet users all over the world...
With House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) at his side, Dole stood under a banner that said "Changing America Together" and said: "We're going to move this country forward...get Bill Clinton out of the way and we will get the job done...