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...minutes before 1 p.m., President Clinton left the Oval Office--which does not have a television set--to catch the verdict in his secretary's office. Somber but showing no surprise, Clinton issued an oddly flat statement about the need to respect the judicial system. Some of his aides, notably George Stephanopoulos, urged him to make a broader statement about race relations, but others preached caution. He opted instead for telling USA Today in a short interview on Thursday that it would be a "great mistake" if the verdict further divided the country...
...written a new book, It's My Party Too, in which she takes on the "social fundamentalists" she argues have hijacked the G.O.P. In this excerpt, Whitman recounts one of her most frustrating early experiences at the EPA, including an unsettling encounter with the Vice President just outside the Oval Office...
...emerged from the Oval Office into the narrow hallway just outside it, I ran into Vice President Cheney. He was in his overcoat and was clearly in a hurry. He muttered a brief hello to me as he asked an aide who had come up behind me, "Do you have it?" The aide handed him a letter, which he tucked into his pocket as he rushed out. As I would soon discover, the letter was the President's answer to the appeal sent by Senator Hagel and his three colleagues the week before. In his reply, the President restated...
...proselytizing outside his inner circle. "I want you to read a book," Bush told a TIME reporter, interrupting his own version of Sharansky's thesis. "It will give you a sense for what I'm talking about." Bush liked the work so much that he invited Sharansky into the Oval Office in early November for an hourlong discussion of the book and how it applies to the war on terrorism...
...Diego's unbubbled ovals After Mayor Dick Murphy beat write-in candidate Donna Frye by 2,108 votes, a recount turned up 5,547 ballots that had been rejected because voters who wrote in her name failed to fill in the oval next to it. As Murphy, a Republican, was sworn in for a second term last month, Frye told TIME, "I doubt I'll be going gently into that good night...