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...tune in Washington will now come from the B side of the baby boom - the kids who never dreamed of turning on, tuning in or dropping out. Clinton and his staff were hardly hippies, but the Bushies regard them as such. "There will be no blue jeans in the Oval Office," sniffs a Bush aide, referring to the relaxed dress code that sometimes gave Clinton's West Wing a dorm-room feel...
...These were the words of man who follows an extraordinarily large-looming president in Bill Clinton and seems determined to enter this Oval Office somewhat smaller and more modestly. The pundits and papers are likely to seize on those mentions of "personal responsibility" as a Clinton kiss-off, but from Bush they also sound like a vision - a vision of a nation led lightly and widely, of a presidency by consensus from a president who never really...
...they will not miss), has shed a hundred tears for the cameras in his eight years in office. But in a tight seven-and-a-half-minute nationally televised thank-you speech to the American people that was, Clinton insisted with an odd redundance, his last speech "from the Oval Office as your president" (will he sneak back in while Bush is in Europe?), the eyes did not moisten. The lip did not quiver. The naked love of politics did not leap from his face as it did during his valedictory in Los Angeles, or during his dozen other farewells...
...charisma, this was the part we were waiting for - "I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead." Question: Was he therefore that deeply cynical when he entered the Oval Office...
...things he normally takes full credit for. But the American people mostly watched, and rooted for either the man or his enemies. Clinton turned politics into a the best soap opera in town, and when George W. Bush is done restoring all the honor and dignity the Oval Office has arguably lost these past two terms, the American people may well have nodded off. Clinton is one tough act to follow...