Word: panetta
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...most bitter fighting, however, occurred inside the White House. Opponents of Clinton's new balanced-budget strategy included, almost to the end, chief of staff Leon Panetta and his deputy, Harold Ickes. But Morris' fiercest critic has been senior adviser George Stephanopoulos. On at least two occasions, top staff members tried to negotiate a cease-fire between the two, who met for the first time in early May over a dinner arranged by Ickes. Two weeks later, there was another round of peace talks, this time in the office of Bill Curry, a moderate Democrat hired by the President...
...again. The officials at the meeting -- including state senators and representatives, city council members and judges -- say some of the Secret Service agents present wore rubber gloves, apparently trying to protect themselves from being infected by the HIV virus. "It's safe to say the chief of staff (Leon Panetta) and others were distressed by that and believe it to be an error of judgment," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said today. The Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service, is looking into the incident...
...days of oratory from top Administration officials found the theme enunciated even before the speechmaking started. A chart on an easel bore the headline cutting medicare to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Cabinet secretaries, economic officials and most of all White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta banged away relentlessly; they criticized other proposals, such as a reduction in funding for Head Start, almost parenthetically. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, recalling the hammering Republicans took earlier for proposing less generous funding of school lunches, described the Medicare issue as "school lunch times...
...press secretary, bent close to his ear. CNN, McCurry said, was reporting that an explosion had destroyed part of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Stay on top of it, Clinton replied. The President then escorted Ciller to a meeting in the Cabinet Room. It was there that Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff, passed the President a yellow legal pad with notes scribbled across the page with Panetta's trademark blue felt-tip pen. "Half of federal building in O.K. City blown up--expect heavy casualties," the note read. "Called Janet Reno--she has dispatched...
...Panetta organized an interagency task force that met for the first time at noon that day. They gathered again at 4 p.m. in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing, where Panetta was briefed in person and over video-conference screens by all the relevant agencies. Then Clinton arrived. He had already decided to make a public statement, but now he had some questions of his own. The first betrayed his penchant for wading into the details of a problem. Was it possible, he asked, to ground all the flights from the region around Oklahoma City...