Word: panetta
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After 2 1/2 hours, the meeting broke up with no formal decision. Clinton, Gore and chief of staff Leon Panetta went into the Oval Office; a bit later Reed and John Hilley, the President's top lobbyist to Congress, were summoned. Clinton asked a few more questions. Then he said, "Let's do it," and, rising from his chair, declared, "I want to sign it." Gore patted his shoulder and said, "I know that was tough...
With White House help, the low-key Farr won Leon Panetta's old seat in a 1993 special election. Perhaps to repay the debt, Farr quickly changed his NAFTA stripes and voted for the Clinton-backed agreement. The nine-time California Legislator of the Year took his political skills to Washington. When the military closed Fort Ord, Farr got part of the base converted to an environmental-science center for the state's public universities. The seat may be Farr's for keeps if he can hold off Jess Brown again...
...noon that day, Panetta and McCurry presented Clinton with a draft of the brief comment he would issue about the Morris departure, saying Morris "is my friend, and he is a superb political strategist." Later the President, his wife and Vice President Gore would all make condolence phone calls to Morris. But for now the President had other things on his mind. He inked in a few revisions to the statement and returned to work on his speech. Says McCurry: "He just kept going." And going. In his acceptance speech Clinton passed over the whole episode without mention. But every...
...Missouri: "I never heard of him [Morris] before this week." The official White House line is that the loss of Morris is no particular loss at all. With the basic message locked in place, the campaign can go on automatic pilot. "The best political strategist is the President," says Panetta. For now, the Clinton camp insists, no new names will be called in. All this is fine with Republicans, who are hoping that Clinton will be pulled off the Morris program by serious liberals like Ickes and Stephanopoulos. Clinton pollster Mark Penn and media consultant Bill Knapp, who have already...
...embarrass Clinton? "Obviously it's not impossible," says editor in chief Phil Bunton. "But we saw nobody else's fingerprints on this story but hers." One thing that made him doubt any political motives was her naivete. Rowlands didn't know what jobs Clinton aides like Leon Panetta and George Stephanopoulos held, and had misspelled their names in her diaries...