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Clinton met privately with Jiang Tuesday night in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House. Albright and National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger were also in attendance. They agreed to establish a round-the-clock telephone connection between the White House and Beijing, similar to the infamous Hot Line with Moscow...
...event he thanks "those who have come from other countries to be with us tonight." At another he praises John Huang, the Democratic fund raiser who solicited a good part of the contributions that have since been returned by the party as questionable or worse. In the Oval Office we also see Clinton courting James Riady, whose family controls the Lippo Group, the Indonesian conglomerate with major projects in China, and questionable D.N.C. contributions. And then there is the Boris-and-Natasha moment, when Clinton is greeted by Arief Wiriadinata, the Indonesian gardener who with his wife somehow contributed...
...with people, filling not only the regular football seating but also cramming the playing field. The stage, an enormous construction dominated by speakers, lights and immense curtains, was set up where one endzone would be. When the Stones took the stage, the curtains parted part way and a gigantic oval-shaped screen literally exploded into existence, shooting flares out over the audience...
...speakers fully as high as the facade of the stadium, strategically positioned, infused the entire space with incredible vibratory energy, so compelling and powerful it was easy to confuse the thumping of the bass drum with one's own heartbeat. The experience was so enveloping and oversized,. with the oval screen providing live close-up camera shots of the performers, that it might have been easy to overlook the relatively miniscule Rolling Stones themselves, to not fully realize that the ubiquitous sound and energy was actually being created right there before us by real men with guitars and drums...
...Details of the national security meetings that followed remained shrouded in mystery. But unknown to anyone but the president, Kennedy was a bit of a Nixon ? he'd been discreetly taping his Oval Office gatherings...