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...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...
...vote to slice $17 billion from federal programs, ranging from public housing to public broadcasting, then pushed $100 billion more in reductions through a divided budget committee as a way of funding tax cuts. Calling today's cuts "irresponsible and mean-spirited," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta immediately promised that President Clinton would veto the legislation. The $100 million package, expected to pass the House by month's end, would help fund $190 billion in tax cuts over five years, most of them for a $500 per child tax credit for families earning under $200,000. But TIME...
...community college in San Bernardino, California, he sat around a table with a dozen local residents for a closed-door discussion of his education policies and Republican plans to "cut and gut" important programs. He emerged after an hour radiating enthusiasm. Turning to his chief of staff, Leon Panetta, Clinton said, "If you let me do that every time we go out on the road, you'll have a happy President." More than that, he said, "I also think we might do ourselves some good...
...also represents something of a palace coup. The Gang's return is the latest and by far the strongest indication that the star of Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes is eclipsing that of his nominal boss, Leon Panetta. One of Panetta's first acts last summer was to all but roust the consultants from the West Wing. He barred them from appearing on TV or in the Oval Office without his permission, and he conducted a none-too-private search for people to replace them. But Ickes had different ideas. In recent weeks he and his protege, newly appointed...