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...government resources during the past eight months and a demand that Clinton settle all legal issues with independent counsel Ken Starr, with an eye toward some admission of wrongdoing. Among those at the table or on the phone were White House officials, former Clinton aides Lloyd Cutler and Leon Panetta, top Democrats in Congress and their lawyers, including longtime Democratic counselor Bob Bauer. White House officials carefully leaked that the President has not yet agreed to accept a deal--a time-tested signal that negotiations were under way and a bargaining position established...
...White House would need to draw back into action a blue-chip crew comparable to the one enlisted by Ronald Reagan to save his presidency after Iran-contra in 1986. As Powell, Howard Baker, Frank Carlucci and Ken Duberstein did then, the presence of Democratic veterans such as Leon Panetta in a return engagement, George Mitchell, Republican Pentagon chief William Cohen, perhaps outgoing Florida Governor Lawton Chiles would reassure the nation and Congress that the President is running a grownup shop, not a frat house or a cathouse, and would have their help in doing the nation's business...
...told Mr. Nelvis that she had recently smoked her first cigar, and he offered to give her one of the President's cigars. Just then, the President came down the hallway from the Oval Office and saw Ms. Lewinsky. The President dispatched Mr. Nelvis to deliver something to Mr. Panetta...
...Ditto Clinton. But today Grant is considered an utter failure. Can Clinton avoid that fate? "He's probably going to be driving himself even more, because he will want more than ever for history not to carry this as the headline," says Clinton's former chief of staff Leon Panetta. Some of the President's options...
...prodigious energy just to keep going, hopscotching the country from event to event if only to prove that he's still the guy with his sleeves rolled up. "He's trying to bob and weave as opposed to moving forward," says former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta. Even more damaging, Clinton has been holding his political capital in reserve for the potential impeachment battles on the Hill. He can't risk the bruising negotiations it takes to pass a bill or resort to the bully pulpit to push his agenda because he must maintain cordial relations with...